# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tulsidas
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:33:21.515Z

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description: "The poet who brought Rama out of Sanskrit and into the streets. Tulsidas rewrote the ancient Ramayana in everyday Awadhi, making the epic legible to millions who couldn't touch the Brahmin version—and authored the Hanuman Chalisa, still chanted in every corner of India four centuries later."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Rambola Dubey in 1511, Tulsidas spent most of his life between Banaras and Ayodhya, writing devotional works in three languages. His Ramcharitmanas—the Ramayana retold in vernacular Awadhi rather than classical Sanskrit—cracked open a text that had been kept behind caste walls. He founded the Sankat Mochan Hanuman Temple in Varanasi, said to mark the spot where he saw the deity himself, and started the Ramlila plays, turning scripture into folk theatre that still runs in villages today. The Tulsi Ghat on the Ganges bears his name. He died in 1623, having written himself so deeply into the fabric of North Indian devotion that his lines are reflexive—people quote him without knowing they're quoting anyone at all.