Ādikavi

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By Jit Majumdar

Sometimes transliterated as: Adikavi, Adikavi, AAdikavi


  1. the original or first poet.
  2. a title used for Vālmīki, the author of the Rāmāyana, who is considered to be the first to compose poetry.

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