Who narrated ramayana to valmiki

Valmiki on hearing the story of Rama narrated by Sage Narada worshipped him along with his disciples. After Narada left the hermitage, Valmiki with his disciples went to the banks of River Tamasa where he saw a couple of crane birds, chuckling delightfully and flying about in togetherness in the vicinity of that river's foreshore. Even while Valmiki was looking at them, a tribal hunter killed the male bird with his arrow. Valmiki noticed the male bird slain and lying on ground reeling with blood covered wings. The female bird on seeing the fate of his companion cuckooed with sorrow. On seeing the bird felled that way and the female bird crying with sorrow, the sage cursed the hunter. The sentences uttered by sage Valmiki surprisingly became a four-line stanza with each line equally postulated that had many meanings to it. That was in fact the beginning of authoring Valmiki Ramayana. Valmiki determined to write Ramayana, elaborating upon what sage Narada tutored him in brief. He completed his bathing in the River Tamasa and carrying his sacramental belongings like the water vessel etc, moved towards his hermitage along with his disciples. On the way to hermitage he mentioned about his stanza several times repeatedly to his disciples. All through the way he became thoughtful as to why his utterance in grief and anguish for the bird became a powerful stanza and the curse has become a blessing one? Valmiki, after returning to the hermitage along with disciples, was totally pre...

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 thinker, and a sublime enunciator among all expert enunciators is Narada, and with such a Divine Sage Narada, the Sage-Poet Valmiki is inquisitively enquiring about a man who is a composite for all merited endowments in his form and calibre. [1-1-1] He inquires whether there is a man with godly qualities in the world and states 16 qualities he is looking for. Narada maharshi names Sri Rama Chandra and narrates the story in brief. Valmiki gets curious and he gets a divine message from Lord Brahma to compile the epic. He bestows a boon that all the events happened in the past, present incidents of the characters in the Ramayana whether revealed or unrevealed just by thought. In this way, Valmiki know what happened exactly. He appears in the Uttara Kanda of Ramayana in several places. He gives shelter to Sita Devi who was in exile. Valmiki maharshi took care of her and her children too. He named him Lava and Kusha. There upon taking Kusa (the upperpart of the grass) and Lava (lower part) the great ascetic Valmiki made those arrangements. And giving Kusa sanctified by those Mantras unto the hands of elderly woman he said, "do ye rub the ...

Ramayana is the oldest epic in world literature. It is a treasure house of knowledge and an inexhaustible mine for later poets and has a special place in Indian culture as well as Sanskrit literature. It is translated into all Indian languages and to several European languages along with English. It is also rendered with variations in many South and South-east countries since several centuries and they have adopted the epic in their music, dance, ballet, art and architecture. It is believed that Valmiki Ramayana was put to writing around 500 AD. It was told and retold since several centuries orally in and around India. Maharshi Valmiki is confident of its circulation among people until mountains stay erect on the earth. Ramayana is known as a treatise of Dharma. The four Purusharthas –values of life.viz., Dharma, Artha, Kama, and Moksha are dealt here with utmost care. Kalidas the famous Sanskrit poet summarizes the values of life upheld by the kings of Ikshvaku dynasty as narrated by Valmiki. The Ramayana epic is strewn with exposition of values of life from great sages. The concept of Dharma is depicted well through the conduct of various characters and more so by Rama. He deals with difficult situations with the ardent devotion to Dharma. It gives a clear message that Dharma will be victorious in the end. But those who want to stand by Dharma may have to pay the price in order to achieve benefit for the entire society. The path of Dharma is open for fearless and noble p...

Written by Valmiki Re-told by C. Rajagopalachari Edited and narrated by Amala-bhakta Swami (ACBSP) With background music and sound effects. One of the most-loved epic stories of ancient India, the Ramayan takes hold of the imagination and works its way into the heart. This narration is not just an in-depth story of the life of Lord Ramachandra, but is a revelation of some of the most fascinating personalities in Vedic history. It portrays ideals--the ideal husband, wife, brother, friend and servant--under the most trying, if not overwhelming circumstances. In this slightly abridged edition, the multiple-voice characterizations, traditional Indian background music, and realistic sound effects will keep you engrossed in the story for hours at a time. Your imagination will see Lord Rama's father, King Dasaratha banish him from the kingdom to the forest for 14 years; His wife Sita kidnapped by the demon Ravana; His servant Hanuman discover Her whereabouts; and Rama lead the monkey troops into battle and finally kill Ravana.

The story goes to the time of Ashwamedha (Horse) sacrifice. After Lord Rama send his horse across the country, wondering as per the ritual, it was Luv and Kush who captured the horse and tied it. Initially, both fought with Bharata, Shatrughna, Lakshmana and then, Rama. It was now; the boys sang the Ramayana to Rama. The surprising factor is that Rama had not heard the epic before and it was his two sons who told him about Ramayana. Rama was overwhelmed with the story. Eventually, he came to know that Luv and Kush were his sons and a whole family reunification happened. Mahabharata Mahabharat, the longest epic, has been narrated in the forests of Naimisha by the sage Ugrasrava Sauti. The one who tells the story is Sauti. Ugrasrava is said to have been performing a yagna under Shaunaka Kulapati. The one who listens is Shaunaka. Image credit – Wikimedia Romaharshana, a disciple of Vyasa is the father of Ugrashrava Sauti. It is during the 12 th century when Ugrasrava visits the Naimisha forest. He (Sauti) is a guest who has visited many places before including the Kurukshetra. On the behest of Shaunaka, Sauti first talks about Bharata, which was narrated to him by Vyasa’s disciple Vaisampayana. Vaisampayana heard the story from Vyasa and first told the story to King Janamejaya (Pariskshit’s son and Abhimanyu’s grandson). He narrated the story during the time of King’s snake sacrifice and Ugrasrava was present during the ritual. So, Ugrasrava first heads the Mahabharata story ...