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Valmiki

80 BC - 2 BC

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Valmiki (; Sanskrit: वाल्मीकि, romanized: Vālmīki, [ʋɑːlmiːki]) was a legendary poet who is celebrated as the traditional author of the epic Ramayana, based on the attribution in the text itself. He is revered as Ādi Kavi, the first poet, author of Ramayana, the first epic poem. The Ramayana, originally written by Valmiki, consists of 24,000 shlokas and seven cantos (kaṇḍas). The Ramayana is composed of about 480,002 words, being a quarter of the length of the full text of the Mahabharata or about four times the length of the Iliad. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Valmiki is the 281st most popular writer (down from 249th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from India (down from 24th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Indian Writer.

Valmiki is most famous for writing the Ramayana, an epic poem about the life of Rama.

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Among writers, Valmiki ranks 281 out of 7,302. Before him are Peter Handke, Gao Xingjian, Pär Lagerkvist, Anna Komnene, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. After him are Germaine de Staël, Isabel Allende, Kenzaburō Ōe, Pierre Corneille, Ludovico Ariosto, and Marcus Terentius Varro.

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Among people born in 80 BC, Valmiki ranks 2. Before him is Vercingetorix. After him are Sosigenes of Alexandria, Gnaeus Pompeius, Aenesidemus, and Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus. Among people deceased in 2 BC, Valmiki ranks 1. After him are Phraates IV, and Iullus Antonius.

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In India

Among people born in India, Valmiki ranks 41 out of 1,861. Before him are A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896), Zakir Husain (1897), Amir Khusrow (1253), Ramaswamy Venkataraman (1910), Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (1952), and Chandragupta Maurya (-340). After him are Buddhaghosa (401), Subhas Chandra Bose (1897), Adi Shankara (788), Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895), Aryabhata (476), and Sathya Sai Baba (1926).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Valmiki ranks 5. Before him are George Orwell (1903), Rabindranath Tagore (1861), Kālidāsa (400), and Rudyard Kipling (1865). After him are Jaggi Vasudev (1957), Salman Rushdie (1947), Ghalib (1797), Jim Corbett (1875), Tulsidas (1532), Savitribai Phule (1831), and William Makepeace Thackeray (1811).

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