Ramcharitmanas

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Ramcharitmanas is a 16th-century Awadhi retelling of the Ramayana composed by the poet Tulsidas, revered as a foundational devotional text in North Indian Hinduism.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Hindu scripture
devotional text
retelling of the Ramayana
alternateTitle Ramcharitmanas
surface form: Rāmcharitmānas

Ramcharitmanas
surface form: Rāmāyaṇa of Tulsidas
associatedFestival Dussehra
Rama Navami
surface form: Ram Navami
associatedPractice Rāmcharitmanas akhand pāṭh
Rāmāyaṇa pāṭh (continuous recitation)
author Tulsidas
basedOn Ramayana
surface form: Valmiki Ramayana
centuryOfComposition 16th century
containsPart Aranya Kanda
surface form: Araṇya Kāṇḍ

Ayodhya Kanda
surface form: Ayodhyā Kāṇḍ

Bāl Kāṇḍ
Kishkindha Kanda
surface form: Kiṣkindhā Kāṇḍ

Laṅkā Kāṇḍ
Sundara Kanda
surface form: Sundar Kāṇḍ

Uttara Kanda
surface form: Uttar Kāṇḍ
countryOfOrigin India
culturalRole foundational text of North Indian Hinduism
genre Bhakti literature
epic poetry
influenceOn Bhajan and kirtan repertoire
North Indian devotional music
Ramleela
surface form: Ramlila theatre traditions
language Awadhi
liturgicalUse recited in homes
recited in temples
used in Ramayana recitation festivals
mainCharacter Hanuman
Lakshmana
Rama
Ravana
Sita
meter chaupai
chaupāī-dohā sequence
doha
soratha
philosophicalOrientation Bhakti (devotion) to Rama
placeOfComposition Varanasi
regionOfInfluence Bihar
Madhya Pradesh
eastern Terai of Nepal
surface form: Nepal (Terai region)

northern India
surface form: North India

Uttar Pradesh
religion Hinduism
script Devanagari script
surface form: Devanagari
structure seven kandas
theologicalFocus Rama as an incarnation of Vishnu
tradition Vaishnavism
venerationStatus regarded as sacred scripture by many Hindus

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Ramayana hasVersion Ramcharitmanas
Ramayana hasVersion Ramcharitmanas
this entity surface form: Kamba Ramayanam
Rama Navami ritual Ramcharitmanas
this entity surface form: recitation of Ramcharitmanas
Bhakti movement associatedWith Ramcharitmanas
Rama associatedText Ramcharitmanas
Kaikeyi associatedWork Ramcharitmanas
this entity surface form: Tulsidas’s Ramcharitmanas
Ramcharitmanas alternateTitle Ramcharitmanas
this entity surface form: Rāmcharitmānas
Ramcharitmanas alternateTitle Ramcharitmanas
this entity surface form: Rāmāyaṇa of Tulsidas
Vanaras appearIn Ramcharitmanas
Dasharatha associatedText Ramcharitmanas
this entity surface form: Tulsidas Ramcharitmanas
Ravana textualSource Ramcharitmanas
Sita featuredIn Ramcharitmanas
Vibhishana alsoMentionedIn Ramcharitmanas
Sugriva textualSource Ramcharitmanas
Awadhi notableWorkInLanguage Ramcharitmanas
Shatrughna associatedWithText Ramcharitmanas
Shatrughna scripturalSource Ramcharitmanas
this entity surface form: Tulsidas Ramcharitmanas
Lakshmana associatedWithText Ramcharitmanas
Indrajit appearsIn Ramcharitmanas
Ananda Ramayana relatedWork Ramcharitmanas
this entity surface form: Tulsidas Ramcharitmanas
Kishkindha appearsIn Ramcharitmanas
Tulsi Manas Mandir associatedWith Ramcharitmanas
Tulsi Manas Mandir namedAfter Ramcharitmanas
Tulsi Manas Mandir namedAfter Ramcharitmanas
this entity surface form: Tulsidas’s work Tulsi Ramcharitmanas
Tulsi Manas Mandir associatedText Ramcharitmanas
Awadhi people associatedLanguageOfEpic Ramcharitmanas
Tulsidas notableWork Ramcharitmanas
Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas