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Information Religion Hinduism Author Tulsidas Language Awadhi Verses 10,902 Ramcharitmanas ( Devangar:, IAST: rRmacaritamnasa), is an epic poem in Awadhi language, composed by the 16th-century Indian bhakti poet Goswami Tulsidas (c.

The word Ramcharitmanas literally means Lake of the deeds of Rama.

It is considered one of the greatest works of Hindu literature.

The work has variously been acclaimed as the living sum of Indian culture, the tallest tree in the magic garden of medieval Indian poetry, the greatest book of all devotional literature and the best and most trustworthy guide to the popular living faith of the Indian people.

Using the IAST transliteration scheme, the name is written as Tulasdsa, as pronounced in Sanskrit.

Using the Hunterian transliteration scheme, it is written as Tulsidas or Tulsds, as pronounced in Hindi).

However, he wanted the story of Rama to be accessible to the general public, as many Apabhramsa languages had evolved from Sanskrit and at that time few people could understand Sanskrit.

In order to make the story of Rama as accessible to the layman as to the scholar, Tulsidas chose to write in Hindi which was the language of general parlance in large parts of north India at the time.

Tradition has it that Tulsidas had to face a lot of criticism from the Sanskrit scholars of Varanasi for being a bhasha (vernacular) poet.

However, Tulsidas remained steadfast in his resolve to simplify the knowledge contained in the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Puranas to the common people.

The writing of Ramcharitmanas also heralded many a cultural tradition, most significantly that of the tradition of Ramlila, the dramatic enactment of the text.

Ramcharitmanas is considered by many as a work belonging to the Saguna school 4 5 of the Bhakti movement 6 7 n 1 in Hindi literature.

This also makes Tulsidas a contemporary of William Shakespeare.

The Valmiki Ramayana is centered on the narrative of Rama, the scion of the family tree of king Raghu of the Sun Dynasty.

Rama was the crown prince of Ayodhya and is considered in Hindu tradition as the seventh Avatar of Vishnu.

However, the Ramacharitmanas is by no means a word-to-word copy of the Valmiki Ramayana nor an abridged re-telling of the latter.

Ramcaritmanas has elements from many other Ramayanas written earlier in Sanskrit and other Indian dialects as well as stories from Puranas.

Tulsidas himself never writes Ramcharitmanas as being a retelling of Valmiki Ramayana.

He calls the epic Ramcharitmanas as the story of Rama, that was stored in the mind (Mnasa) of Shiva before he narrated the same to His wife Parvati.

Tulsidas claims to have received the story through his guru, Narharidas.Tulsidas was a naive (Acheta) child and the story was stored in his mind (Mnasa) for long before he wrote it down as Ramcharitmanas.

Some understand this passage of the Ramcharitmanas to mean that Tulsidas at first could not grasp the story fully as he was a nave young boy.

His guru graciously repeated it again and again so that he could understand and remember it.

Then he narrated the story and named it Ramcharitmanas as Shiva himself called it.

The epic poem is, therefore, also referred to as Tulsikrit Ramayana (literally, The Ramayana composed by Tulsidas ).

Some believe it to represent a challenge to the dominance of high-class Brahmanical Sanskrit, 27 28 29 echoing the revolt of Buddha against Brahmanical elitism.

It was the attempt of Tulsidas to reconcile the different stories of Rama and to bring the story within the reach of the common man.

Tulsidas compared the seven Kndas of the epic to seven steps leading into the holy waters of Lake Manasarovar which purifies the body and the soul at once.

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