Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.1336
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c8.1336
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(2) It was Nārada who gave the impetus to Vālmīki for the composition of Rāmāyaṇa. Once Vālmīki asked Nārada, who had returned after a tour of the three worlds, who the greatest of men was. Nārada replied 'Śrī Rāma' and related to Vālmīki a brief history of Rāma. Nārada departed from there and Vālmīki went to the banks of the river Tamasā. It was there that Vālmīki, at the sight of a hunter shooting down one of the Krauñca birds, sang the famous verse 'Mā niṣāda' etc. (See under Vālmīki).