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Today celebrates the birth of Maharishi Valmiki, a poet and philosopher. The actual date and year of his birth sometime between 400 and 100 BCE is unknown.
Valmiki is the father of Sanskrit literature, having written the epic "Ramayana." He is believed to have invented shloka, first verse or epic metre, which set the base and defined the form to Sanskrit poetry.
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