Valmiki appears in Bala Kanda and Uttara Kanda. The Ramayana starts with the conversation between Sage Narada and Valmiki. Valmiki inquires whether there is any man in the world with qualities of a God. He wanted to know sixteen qualities. A thoughtful-meditator, an eternally studious sage in scriptures about the Truth and Untruth, a sagacious.