The tradition of holding Ramleela for nine days prior to the festival of Vijayadashami (Dussehra) still holds strong not only in India but also in several countries of south-east Asia. Some of the unknown feats of Tulsidas include his initiation of Ramleela (theatrical performance of Lord Rama’s story) across the region. The tradition continues even today as all the Indian ‘akharas’, in north and central India, have a statue of Lord Hanuman. The poet himself founded a large number of Hanuman temples and is known to have set up a large number of ‘akharas’ with Lord Hanuman’s statue being enshrined there. The massive following of Lord Hanuman today can be attributed to the latter. Tulsidas wrote around a dozen texts on Lord Ram’s life - the two most popular being Ramcharitmanas and Hanuman Chalisa (40 verses in praise of Lord Hanuman). the seventh day of the dark fortnight of the moon, which is on 27 July this year. Tulsidas Jayanti is observed on the ‘Saptami’ of the Krishna Paksha, i.e. But there is unanimity that he was born at one of the places that is currently part of Uttar Pradesh d uring the month of Shravana, according to the Hindu Calendar. There are different versions about the place and year of birth of Tulsidas, ranging from 1497 to 1532. Western observers have christened it “the Bible of Northern India” and called it “the best and most trustworthy guide to the popular living faith of its people”.Īlso read: 72 years of ABVP, student body where Amit Shah, Nadda, Rajnath began their political careers He wrote “the tallest tree in the magic garden of medieval Hindu poesy” was acclaimed by Mahatma Gandhi as “the greatest book of all devotional literature”. “ This sixteenth-century retelling of the legend of Ram by the poet Tulsidas has been hailed not merely as the greatest modern Indian epic, but as something like a living sum of Indian culture,” wrote Lutgendorf, who is considered to be one of the foremost experts on the Ramcharitmanas. Philip Lutgendorf, an American Indologist and professor of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies in the US, says in his seminal work, The Life of a Text Performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas, that anyone interested in the religion and culture of Northern India invariably encounters a reference to Ramcharitmanas. The birth anniversary of Goswami Tulsidas is on Monday, 27 July, this year, just a week before the construction work for the Ram Temple is set to begin formally.
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He began writing it in Ayodhya and finished it in Kashi (Varanasi). But Tulsidas, despite being a Sanskrit scholar, chose Awadhi. The movement gained momentum when the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) took over the mantle to build a nationwide movement.īefore he wrote Ramcharitmanas in the local Hindi dialect called ‘Awadhi’ around 400 years ago, the story of Lord Rama was largely recited in Sanskrit in northern and central India through Valmiki’s Ramayana.
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That ultimately proved to be the key factor in building a movement for the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, the birth place of Ram, after over four centuries. It is Hindu saint and poet Goswami Tulsidas’s epochal work, ‘ Ramcharitmanas ’, which is credited with taking the story of Lord Ram to every household in north and central India, creating an emotional connect between an average Hindu household and Lord Ram. New Delhi: As Ayodhya gets ready for the ‘bhoomi pujan’ for Ram Mandir on 5 August, ending centuries of wait, the day almost coincides with the birth anniversary of the person who can be called the original catalyst for the ‘Ram Janmabhoomi’ movement.