Tulsidas's Ramayana - Ram Charit Manas

Description

This lovely book tellsa bout Tulsida, who tells the story of Ram in 1574 the prince of Ayodhya, in Awadh, a dialect of Hindi spoken in Awadh in Uttar Pradesh. The work consists of about a thousand stanzas, each about 12 to 18 lines, set in elegant rhyme. Every village and town in the Hindi heartland has a troupe that gives a theatrical performance, called Ramlila, based on the work of Tulsidas. Ramlila is enacted as part of the Vijaya Dashami celebrations.