Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday greeted the nation on the occasion of Valmiki Jayanti.
"Greetings on Valmiki Jayanti. A great sage and master litterateur, his rich ideals and works guide generations...," Modi tweeted on the birth anniversary of Sanskrit poet Maharishi Valmiki.
Valmiki is the author of the epic Ramayana. The original texts written by the sage consists of 24,000 shlokas and seven cantos (kandas) including Uttara Kanda.
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