adikavya
आदिकाव्य ādikāvya'The first poem'; the epithet of the Valmiki Ramayana, held by the tradition to be the first composition in the shloka verse form.
Where this term appears
- What is the Ramayana? Scriptures
The tradition calls that line the first shloka, and it calls Valmiki the adikavi , the first poet. What he composed it calls the adikavya , the first poem.
- Who is Rama? Deities
That exchange opens the first poem, the adikavya , and it sets the terms for everything that follows.
- The First Poem Treatise
Valmiki becomes the adikavi , the first poet, and the work he makes is the adikavya , the first poem.
- The Search for the Original Treatise
Tradition calls the Ramayana the adikavya , the first poem, composed whole by a single seer.