Maharshi Valmiki, the author of the great Indian epic Ramayana, was a Hindu sage who is referred to as the 'adikavi', the original creator of the Hindu 'shloka' 

This Episode of Holy Tales by Himanshu Sharma will tell you how a Brahman by birth belonging to the lineage of Bhrigu was consigned to a family of robbers who brought him up. But his accidental contact with the sage Narada changed his life.