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Ramlila is a compound Sanskrit words "Rama" (a Vishnu avatar) and "Lila" (play, game, sport). According to James Lochtefeld, the word connotes a "playful drama about Rama", where it is both entertainment and a "deeply serious religious act" that has spiritual significance to both the actors and the audience.
Sur, a devotee of Krishna and a contemporary of Tulsidas, called Tulsidas as Sant Shiromani (the highest jewel among holy men) in an eight-line verse extolling Ramcharitmanas and Tulsidas. [151] Abdur Rahim Khankhana , famous Muslim poet who was one of the Navaratnas (nine-gems) in the court of the Mughal emperor Akbar, was a personal friend of ...
Tulsidas is a long poem (khandakavya) in Hindi written by Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'. It is based on an episode of the life of the medieval bhakti poet-saint of the same name . Originally written in 1934, the work was first published in 1935 in the Hindi magazine Sudha and later released as a separate edition in 1939.
Tulsidas lived in the city of Varanasi until his death. [13] The Tulsi Ghat in Varnasi is named after him. [11] He founded the Sankat Mochan Hanuman Temple dedicated to Hanuman in Varanasi, believed to stand at the place where he had the sight of Hanuman. [14] Tulsidas started the Ramlila plays, a folk-theatre adaption of the Ramayana. [15]
In many places, the Ramlila, a dramatic performance on story of Rama is enacted over the 9 days leading up to the festival. The performance is inspired from the Ramcharitmanas, a Hindu text written by Tulsidas. [30] Effigies of the demons Ravana, Kumbhakarna and Meghnath are also created and burnt on bonfires in the evening. [8]
Picture of author, Tulsidas published in the Ramcharitmanas, 1949.. Tulsidas began writing the Ramcharitmanas in Ayodhya in Vikram Samvat 1631 (1574 CE). [n 2] [15] The exact date is stated within the poem as being the ninth day of the month of Chaitra, which is the birthday of Rama or Rama Navami. [15]
In the Ramayana, Sita has few other rakshasi benefactors besides Trijata.When Hanuman – the vanara-general of Rama who was tasked to find Sita – meets her in Lanka, she tells him that the wife of Vibhishana (the brother of Ravana who sides with Rama in the war) sent her daughter Kala (in other recensions of the Ramayana, known as Nanda or Anala) to proclaim Ravana's intention to not ...
It is believed to have been either written by Tulsidas (or based on his work Ramcharitmanas) [5] or based on a 17th-century sung-prayer by the Marathi saint-poet Ramdas. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] It is also claimed to have been taken from Nama Ramayana (or Sri Nama Ramayanam ), attributed to Lakshmanacharya.