# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valmiki
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:16:33.083Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valmiki"
name: "Valmiki"
slug: "valmiki"
description: "He's called Ādi Kavi — the first poet — because the Ramayana, all 24,000 verses of it, is credited to him. That makes Valmiki the originating voice of Sanskrit epic poetry, the template for storytelling across a subcontinent."
tagline: "Legendary Indian poet, author of the Ramayana"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Valmiki_Ramayana.jpg"
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profileType:
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livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Valmiki was a legendary sage, a maharishi in Hindu tradition, who composed the Ramayana sometime between the 8th century BCE and 3rd century CE — scholars can't pin it closer because the text grew through centuries of additions and edits. The epic spans seven cantos and roughly 480,000 words, telling the story of Prince Rama of Ayodhya, whose wife Sita is abducted by Ravana, the demon-king of Lanka. Some traditions place Valmiki as a contemporary of Rama himself. British satirist Aubrey Menen later noted that Valmiki was recognized as a literary genius partly for his philosophical scepticism and for a narrative choice unusual in ancient literature: he wrote himself into the story, becoming the first author in history to step openly into his own composition.