Tulsidas
Hindu saint and poet (1532-1623), author of the Ramcharitmanas and Hanuman Chalisa · India · Writers · Died at 91
Tulsidas is read about 531 times a day, in 61 languages.
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Something wrong?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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Goswami Tulsidas Awadhi Hindi Poet
A Prince Visits the Poet Tulsidas
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Gosvami Tulsidas II
Gosvami Tulsidas
Handwritten Ramcharitmanas
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Raja Sansar Chand and saint Tulsidas paying homage to Rama and SitaIn their own words 10
, Mother and father abandoned me at birth and the author of my life also did not write any worth or merit on the page of destiny.
The world knows that to quell the belly-fire, I ate crumbs and morsels given by men of caste, high-caste, low-caste or no cast.
What did I not do, where did I not go, to whom did I not bow.
About this person
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.
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