It was for an entertainment in this connection that the Valmiki Pratibha was composed.
I played Valmiki and my niece, Pratibha, took the part of Saraswati—which bit of history remains recorded in the name.
Valmiki Pratibha is not a composition which will bear being read.
After he had been thus buried alive, he became himself a Rishi, and was known as Valmiki Rishi, valmiki meaning an ant-hill.
The adjective Bhima-sankasas as explained by Nilakantha is in this sense, quoting the celebrated simile of Valmiki.
