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Valmiki is traditionally regarded as the Adi Kavi (first poet) and the author of the Ramayana, one of the two great Sanskrit epics of ancient India. He composed the 24,000-verse epic narrating the life of Rama, after the divine sage Narada revealed the story to him. Vyasa, another great sage, is credited with composing the Mahabharata, not the Ramayana.