So it is at this place that thousands of years ago, Sage Vishwamitra spoke these lines for the first time. It is also the birth place of the great political activist and leader Jayaprakash Narayan. The place where Ganga meets Sarayu is the modern Jaiprakash Nagar (Sitab diara) village in the Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh. Wake up, oh courageous man, its time to perform the daily divine rituals. Oh Rama, the great son of Kausalya, Twilight is approaching in the East. Uththishta narasardhula karthavyam daivamahnikam Kausalya supraja Rama purva sandhya pravarthathe Sage Vishwamitra says these lines in the Bala Kaanda section of Ramayana to wake up Prince Rama who is sleeping in a hermitage at the confluence of the rivers Ganga and Sarayu. The very first lines of the Sri Venkateshwara Suprabhatam (below) are from the original Valmiki Ramayana. What is the relation between the thousands of years old Valmiki Ramayan and the centuries old Sri Venkateshwara Suprabhatam?
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