RAMAYAN - a true life story, VALMIKI was a great Biologist

RAMAYAN - a true life story
🙏Jai Sri Ram🙏

VALMIKI was a great Biologist

From a Biological view point by 2 botanists- a research.

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— Deepa❣ (@OmTheReality) April 12, 2020

Around 1000BCE, no means was available to create a folklore with all the minutest details by a writer, Valmiki, and found around the country as documented in CPR Environmental Education Centre, citing:"Plant n Animal Diversity in Ramayana"by M. Amirthalingam n P. Sudhakar,Chn pic.twitter.com/puPpP2wZZg

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Ramayan talks of sacred groves and various species of animals.
Valmiki the biologist, Rama as botanist n Sita as zoologist carved their niche in their ecosystem. Often deities and rituals are associated with sacred groves or conservation areas or formally made into bioreserves. pic.twitter.com/b1KReEHtYP

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From aranyas n various forest types to vana, to economically useful plants to medicinal, from sacred to culturally important plants, 182 plants n their flowering seasons described in detail in Ramayana has been documented now with Sanskrit n Latin names. pic.twitter.com/Eh6dimpz93

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Vanaras are Vana Naras, people of the forest who carried kapi- the monkey on their flag. Jhambavan was also called Vanara by Valmiki, its likely that Hanuman's super human feat of flying across mountains etc were inconceivable by mortals so we associated vanaras with monkeys. pic.twitter.com/mmbPNVyiNi

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Dronagiri hills has 4 important plants: Mrita sanjeevani(restore life), vishalyakarani(healing wounds), suvarnakarani( restore original complexion), sandhani(joining severed limbs n bones)
Of the above 3 hv been id'ed now are: Cressa, Selaginella, Flickingeria. pic.twitter.com/rEAVw7xQDB

— Deepa❣ (@OmTheReality) April 12, 2020

To all those who quion, Valmiki's narrative, the ecosystem, various fauna n flora was maintained n described in detail without adding hues of his own. The distribution n information is exact along the entire trail from Ayodhya to Lanka.
Valmiki, was a great Biologist.
💗 🙏

— Deepa❣ (@OmTheReality) April 12, 2020