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Tulsidas

Also known as Gosvami Tulsidas

Rambola (; 11 August 1511 – 30 July 1623), popularly known as Goswami Tulsīdās (), was a Vaishnava (Ramanandi) Hindu saint, devotee (भक्त) and poet, renowned for his devotion to the deity Rama. He wrote several popular works in Sanskrit, Awadhi, and Braj Bhasha, but is best known as the author of the Hanuman Chalisa and of the epic Ramcharitmanas, a retelling of the Sanskrit Ramayana, based on Rama's life, in the vernacular Awadhi language.

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Tulsidas was a Hindu saint and poet (1511-1623) devoted to the deity Rama who wrote influential works in multiple languages, most famously the Hanuman Chalisa and the Ramcharitmanas, an epic retelling of the Ramayana in the everyday language of Awadhi. His writings have remained popular and significant in Hindu devotional practice and Indian literature for centuries.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1532
Died: 1623
Works: 110

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: India
Active from: 1511
Active to: 1623

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Listeners: 24
Total plays: 487

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Key facts

Hindu leader.honorific_prefix: SantGoswami
Hindu leader.name: Tulsidas
Hindu leader.religion: Hinduism
Hindu leader.image: Goswami Tulsidas Awadhi Hindi Poet.jpg
Hindu leader.caption: Picture of Tulsidas published in the Ramcharitmanas, by Sri Ganga Publishers, Gai Ghat, Benaras, 1949
Hindu leader.birth_place: Rajapur, Delhi Sultanate (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India)
Hindu leader.known_for: Composing the Ramcharitmanas and Hanuman ChalisaReincarnation of Valmiki
Hindu leader.birth_name: Rambola Dubey
Hindu leader.death_place: Banaras, Awadh Subah, Mughal Empire (present-day Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India)
Hindu leader.guru: Narharidas (Narharyanandacharya)
Hindu leader.father: Aatmaram
Hindu leader.mother: Hulsi Devi
Hindu leader.sect: Ramanandi Sampradaya
Hindu leader.philosophy: Vishishtadvaita
Hindu leader.honors: Goswami, sant, Abhinavavālmīki, Bhaktaśiromaṇi
Hindu leader.literary_works: Ramcharitmanas, Vinaya Patrika, Geetawali, Dohavali, Sahitya Ratna, Hanuman Chalisa, Vairagya Sandipani, Janaki Mangal, Parvati Mangal, and others
Hindu leader.spouse: Ratnavali

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date of death: 1623-01-01
date of birth: 1532-01-01
Commons category: Tulsidas
birth name: गोस्वामी तुलसीदास
name in native language: तुलसीदास
Commons Creator page: Tulsidas
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Works in European collections

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Contents

Transliteration and etymology
Sources
Incarnation of Valmiki
Early life
Birth
Childhood
Marriage and renunciation
Later life
Travels
Darshan of Hanuman
Darshan of Rama
Darshan of Yajnavalkya and Bharadvaja
Attributed miracles
Literary life
Composition of ''Ramcharitmanas''
Last compositions
Death
Works
Ramcharitmanas
Other major works
Minor works
Popularly attributed works
Doctrine
Nirguna and Saguna Brahman
The name of Rama
Rama as Brahman
Vedanta, World and Maya
Views on other Hindu deities
Bhakti
Critical reception
See also
Notes
References
External links

Tulsidas spent most of his life in the cities of Banaras (modern Varanasi) and Ayodhya. The Tulsi Ghat on the Ganges in Varanasi is named after him. He founded the Sankat Mochan Hanuman Temple in Varanasi, believed to stand at the place where he had the sight of the deity. Tulsidas started the Ramlila plays, a folk-theatre adaptation of the Ramayana.