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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 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.
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]
Vinaya Patrika (Letter of petition [1]) is a devotional poem composed by the 16th-century Indian poet, Goswami Tulsidas (c. 1532 – c. 1623), containing hymns to different Hindu deities, especially to Rama.
Rudrashtakam appears in the Uttara Kand of the Ramcharitmanas, where the sage Lomasha composed the hymn to invoke the energy of Shiva. This is composed in Bhujangaprayāt chhanda and Jagati meter which consists of 12 letters in each of the four stages having only YAGANA four times in single verse consists of 48 letters.
Like the Ramcharitmanas, it is divided into seven Kands or books and many episodes in this work are different from the Ramcharitmanas. Gitavali (गीतावली), literally Collection of Songs , is a Braja rendering of the Ramayana in songs.
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Philip Lutgendorf is an American scholar of South Asia. He is Professor Emeritus of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies at the University of Iowa. [1] His areas of work and interest include the epic poem Ramcharitmanas, the life and works of Hindu poet Tulsidas, the worship of Hanuman, Indian popular cinema, and the Indian tea culture.