Hindu saint and poet (1532–1623), author of the Ramcharitmanas and Hanuman Chalisa
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.
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…
Sourced, dated quotes from Tulsidas
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.
[I] begged for crumbs and morsels door to door...Plodding and dawdling around lanes.
Mine is no caste or cult, what care I for one or the other...No one is of any use to me, nor am I of any use to anyone. Don’t have a son to need, someone’s daughter to wed.
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