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Rambhadracharya's most controversial work was the critical edition of the Ramcharitmanas, which was published as the Tulsi Peeth edition. [24] He was accused of tampering with the epic, [ 24 ] [ 25 ] but the dispute died down after Rambhadracharya expressed his regret for any annoyance or pain caused by the publication. [ 26 ]
Morari Bapu (born Moraridas Prabhudas Hariyani, 2 March 1946) is an Indian spiritual leader and narrator of Rama katha from Gujarat.He is an exponent of Ramcharitmanas with more than 900 kathas recited over the last 60 years. [1]
An old photograph of Shachidevi Mishra, mother of Rambhadracharya. Jagadguru Rambhadracharya was born to Pandit Shri Rajdev Mishra and Shrimati Shachidevi Mishra in a Saryupareen Brahmin family of the Vasishtha Gotra (lineage of the sage Vasishtha) in Shandikhurd village in the Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India. [29]
The writing of Ramcharitmanas also heralded many a cultural tradition, most significantly that of the tradition of Ramlila, the dramatic enactment of the text. [4] Ramcharitmanas is considered by many as a work belonging to the Saguna school [5] [6] of the Bhakti movement [7] [8] [n 1] in Hindi literature.
The Hindi poet Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala' called Tulsidas "the most fragrant branch of flowers in the garden of the world's poetry, blossoming in the creeper of Hindi". [9] Nirala considered Tulsidas to be a greater poet than Rabindranath Tagore , and in the same league as Kalidasa , Vyasa , Valmiki, Homer , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and ...
The Ramcharitmanas was composed by Tulsidas in the late sixteenth century. It has been extremely popular in northern India over the last four hundred years, and is often referred to as the "Bible of northern India" by Western Indologists. [8] After nearly eight years of research, Rambharacharya came up with a critical edition of the Ramcharitmanas.
The epic text is dated to the 1st millennium BCE and Ramlila is an adaptation of those stories. Most Ramlilas in North India are based on the 16th-century secondary work on Ramayana, Ramcharitmanas a verse form composition in the regional vernacular language (Awadhi a dialect of Hindi [7]), by Tulsidas.
Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas, a later version of the Ramayana written in the vernacular of that time, is also popularly recited. [25] The start of the composition of the Ramcharitmanas began on Rama Navami.