[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c8.1336 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c8.1336](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1336) (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). - [Previous: c8.1335](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1335) - [Next: c8.1337](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1337) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1336](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1336) · Pramāṇa