16th-Century Poems - Ramacharitamanas (Paperback)

Chapters: Ramacharitamanas. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: r Rmacaritamnasa (Devangar: ) (Avadhi) is an epic poem composed by the 16th-century Indian poet, Goswami Tulsidas (c.15321623) (also transliterated as Tulasidasa). An English translation of Rmacaritamnasa is "The Lake of the Acts of Rama." Sri Sita Ram, Laksman and HanumanThe core of the Rmacaritamnas is a poetic retelling of the events of the Sanskrit epic Ramayana, concerning the exploits of Sri Rama, the crown prince of Ayodhya. The great poem is also called Tulsi-krita Ramayana, or "The Ramayana of Tulsidas." Tulsidas began writing the scripture in Vikram Samvat 1631 (1574 CE) in Avadhpuri, Ayodhya. The exact date is stated within the poem as being the ninth day of the Chaitra month - which was in fact the birth date of Lord Ram. A large portion of the poem was composed at Varanasi, where the poet spent most of his later life. Today, it is considered one of the greatest works of Hindu literature. Its composition marks the first time the story of Ramayana was made available to the common man for song and performance. Thus, the text is associated with the beginning of the storied tradition of Ramlila, the dramatic enactment of the text. It was Tulsidasjis aim to make the story of Ramalila accessible to the masses. Sanskrit was seen as a very complicated language to master, at his time, and so for this reason the r Rmacaritamnasa was written in Avadhi, which belongs to the Eastern Hindi language family. The Rmacaritamnas consists of seven books, of which the first two, entitled Childhood Episode (Bal Kaand) and Ayodhya Episode (Ayodhya Kaand), make up more than half the work. The later books are Forest Episode (Araanya Kaand), Kishkindha Episode (Kishkindha Kaand), Pleasant Episode(Su...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=16904