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Ramcharitmanas consists of seven Kānds (literally "books" or "episodes", cognate with cantos) and composed of approximately 12,800 lines, divided into 1,073 stanzas. [25] Tulsidas compared the seven Kāndas of the epic to seven steps leading into the holy waters of Lake Manasarovar "which purifies the body and the soul at once".
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]
Rambola Dubey (Hindi pronunciation: [rɑːməboːlɑː d̪ubeː]; 11 August 1511 – 30 July 1623 [1]), known as Tulsidas (Sanskrit pronunciation: [tʊlsiːdaːsaː]), [2] was a Vaishnava Hindu saint and poet, renowned for his devotion to the deity Rama.
Araṇya-Kāṇḍa, or The Forest Episode, is the third book of the epic poem of Ramayana.It is also found in the Rāmcharitmānas.It follows the legend of Rama through his fourteen-year exile in the forest, joined by his wife and his brother. [1]
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.
The Ramayana has been adapted on screen as well, most notably as the television series Ramayan by producer Ramanand Sagar, which is based primarily on the Ramcharitmanas and Valmiki's Ramayana and, at the time, was the most popular series in Indian television history.
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.
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.