<P> Tulsidas (the Sanskrit name of Tulsidas can be transliterated in two ways . Using the IAST transliteration scheme, the name is written as Tulasīdāsa, as pronounced in Sanskrit . Using the Hunterian transliteration scheme, it is written as Tulsidas or Tulsīdās, as pronounced in Hindi). Tulsidas was a great scholar of Sanskrit . However, he wanted the story of Rama to be accessible to the general masses and not just the Sanskrit - speaking elite . In order to make the story of Rama as accessible to the layman as to the scholar, Tulsidas chose to write in Awadhi, a local dialect of Hindi which was in vogue as the language of general parlance in large parts of north India during the composition of the work . Tradition has it that Tulsidas had to face a lot of criticism from the sanskrit scholars of Varanasi for being a bhasha (vernacular) poet . However, Tulsidas remained steadfast in his resolve for simplifying the knowledge contained in the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Puranas to the common people . Subsequently, his work was accepted by all . </P> <P> Ramcharitmanas, made available the story of Rama to the common man to sing, meditate and perform on . The writing of Ramcharitmanas also heralded many a cultural tradition, most significantly that of the tradition of Ramlila, the dramatic enactment of the text . Ramcharitmanas is considered by many as a work belonging to the Saguna school of the Bhakti movement in Hindi literature . </P> <P> Tulsidas began writing the Ramcharitmanas in Ayodhya in Vikram Samvat 1631 (1574 CE). The exact date is stated within the poem as being the ninth day of the month of Chaitra, which is the birthday of Rama, Rama Navami . Ramcharitmanas was composed at Ayodhya, Varanasi & Chitrakoot . India was under the reign of Mughal emperor Akbar (1556 - 1605 CE) during this period . This also makes Tulsidas a contemporary of William Shakespeare . </P> <P> The Ramcharitmanas is written in vernacular Awadhi language, The core of the work is considered by some to be a poetic retelling of the events of the Sanskrit epic Ramayana by Valmiki . The Valmiki Ramayana is centered on the narrative of Rama, the scion of the family tree of king Raghu of the Sun Dynasty . Rama was the crown prince of Ayodhya and is considered in Hindu tradition as the seventh Avatar of Vishnu . However, the Ramacharitmanas is by no means a word - to - word copy of the Valmiki Ramayana nor an abridged re-telling of the latter . Ramcaritmanas has elements from many other Ramayanas written earlier in Sanskrit and other Indian dialects as well as stories from Puranas . Tulsidas himself never writes Ramcharitmanas as being a retelling of Valmiki Ramayana . He calls the epic Ramcharitmanas as the story of Rama, that was stored in the mind (Mānasa) of Shiva before he narrated the same to His wife Parvati . Tulsidas claims to have received the story through his guru, Narharidas. Tulsidas was a naive (Acheta) child and the story was stored in his mind (Mānasa) for long before he wrote it down as Ramcharitmanas . Some understand this passage of the Ramcharitmanas to mean that Tulsidas at first could not grasp the story fully as he was a naïve young boy . His guru graciously repeated it again and again so that he could understand and remember it . Then he narrated the story and named it Ramcharitmanas as Shiva himself called it . The epic poem is, therefore, also referred to as Tulsikrit Ramayana (literally, The Ramayana composed by Tulsidas). </P>

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