Mysore/Mysuru: The District Administration, in association with Zilla Panchayat (ZP), SC/ST Welfare Department and Mysuru City and Taluk Nayaka Community Associations, celebrated Maharshi Valmiki Jayanthi at Kalamandira on Hunsur Road in city this morning.
Chamundeshwari MLA G.T. Devegowda, who spoke after inaugurating the Jayanthi, said that Valmiki was the composer of the first Sanskrit poem (the Adikavya) known the world over as the epic Ramayana. He pointed out that Valmiki was a great sage who wrote Ramayana, that chronicles the story of Lord Rama.
