PM Narendra Modi greets nation on Valmiki Jayanti

New Delhi: 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.

https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/915772046746861569

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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.