No. 26 of 200 · Great Authors
200 BC
Major worksRamayana (Valmiki)
The sage traditionally honored as the author of the Ramayana and revered in India as the adikavi, the "first poet," composer of the first true poem in Sanskrit. His epic of Prince Rama's exile, the abduction of his wife Sita, and the war to recover her has shaped the religious and moral imagination of South and Southeast Asia for more than two millennia.
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