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Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.

Now Ravana said to himself, "These are all petty weapons. I should really get down to proper busines...

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Valmiki

Poet

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Valmiki (Sanskrit: वाल्मीकि Vālmīki) is celebrated as the harbinger-poet in Sanskrit literature. He is the author of the epic Rāmāyaṇa, based on the attribution in the text of the epic itself. He is revered as the Ādi Kavi, which translates to First Poet, for he invented śloka (i.e. first verse or epic metre), which set the base and defined the form to Sanskrit poetry.More