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वाल्मीकः (vAlmIkaH)

 
Apte 1890
English
वाल्मीकः,
वाल्प्तीकिः [वल्मीके भवः अण् इञ् वा] N. of a celebrated sage, and author of the Rāmāyaṇa. [He was a Brāhmaṇa by birth, but being abandoned by his parents in his childhood, he was found by some wild mountaineers who taught him the art of thieving. He soon became an adept in the art, and pursued his business of plundering and killing (where necessary) travellers for several years. One day he saw a great sage whom he asked on pain of death to deliver up his possessions. But the sage told him to go home and ask his wife and children if they were ready to become his partners in the innumerable iniquities that he had committed. He accordingly went home, but returned dismayed at their unwillingness. The sage then told him to repeat the word marā (which is Rāma inverted) and disappeared. The robber continued to repeat it for years together without moving from the place, so that his body was covered up with ant-hills. But the same sage reappeared and got him out, and as he issued from the ‘valmīka’ he was called Vālmīki, and became afterwards an eminent sage. One day while he was performing his ablutions, he saw one of a pair of Krauncha birds being killed by a fowler, at which he cursed the wretch in words which unconsciously took the form of a verse in the Anuṣṭubh metre. This was a new mode of composition, and at the command of the god Brahman he composed the first poem the Rāmāyaṇa. When Sītā was abandoned by Rāma, he gave her shelter under his roof, and brought up her two sons. He afterwards restored them all to Rāma].
Apte Hindi
Hindi
वाल्मीकः
पुं*
 - वल्मीके भवः अण्
एक विख्यात मुनि तथा रामायण के प्रणेता का नाम
Tamil
Tamil
வால்மீக: : வால்மீகம் = எறும்புப் புற்று, கரையான் புற்று.
வால்மீக: : வால்மீகி: = ராமாயணத்தை இயற்றிய முனிவர்.
शब्दकल्पद्रुमः
Sanskrit
वाल्मीकः,
पुं,
 (वल्मीके भवः । वल्मीक + अण् ।)रामायणकर्त्ता मुनिः । तत्पर्य्यायः । प्राचेतसः२ वाल्मीकिः ३ कविज्येष्ठः ४ कुशीवशः ५वल्मीकः ६ । इति त्रिकाण्डशेषः ॥
कविः ७आद्यकविः ८ । इति जटाधरः ॥