Ramcharitmanas
Tulsidas's Awadhi retelling of the Ramayana, begun in 1574, the living Ramayana of north India, recited and enacted in the Ramlila; its Rama is wholly divine.
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Appears in
- What is the Ramayana? Scriptures
Tulsidas and the Ramcharitmanas The poet Tulsidas composed the Ramcharitmanas , "the lake of the deeds of Rama," in Awadhi, an early form of Hindi.
- The Unwritten Library Treatise
For roughly three thousand years, the most important texts in India were never written down. They were heard, memorized syllable by syllable, and carried across a…
- The city of Rama Treatise
His retelling is the Ramcharitmanas , "the lake of the deeds of Rama", and it became, and remains, the single most beloved devotional book of northern India, recited in villages and temples and homes across a v…
- The verse that was never about mantras Treatise
The four lines from the *Rāmcaritmānas* quoted everywhere as the charter of *śābara* mantras are, in their own setting, a poet's argument for his own book. They…
- Vācā, phuro, ājñā Treatise
Two of the three words counted here are features of the printed popular Śābara corpus, and the third is a feature of one book. *Vācā*, speech, and *phuro*, a verb…
- The philology of unintelligibility Treatise
*Anmil ākhar*, ill-matched letters, is best read as a verdict on how the syllables are dressed: badly assorted, wrong for the sound of sacred speech, and effective…
- The lock has an address Treatise
The doctrine that Śiva locked every other mantra and left the Śābara corpus alone unlocked is real and written down, and its home is Hindī. Its earliest located…