INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ramcharitmanas (Devanagari: Rāmacaritamānasa), is an epic poem in the Awadhi language, based on the Ramayana, and composed by the 16th-century Indian bhakti poet Tulsidas (c. 1532–1623). This work is also called, in popular parlance, Tulsi Ramayana, Tulsikrit Ramayana, Tulsidas Ramayana or simply Manas.

Detailed explanation-2: -’Ramcharitmanas’ the Hindi Ramayana, composed by Goswami Tulsidas in the 16th century. Ramcharitmanas literally means ‘ Lake of the deeds of Rama’. It is considered to be one of the greatest work of Hindi literature.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Ramayana was composed in Sanskrit, probably not before 300 bce, by the poet Valmiki and in its present form consists of some 24, 000 couplets divided into seven books.

Detailed explanation-4: -The oldest version is generally recognized to be the Sanskrit version attributed to the sage Narada, the Mula Ramayana. Narada passed on the knowledge to Valmiki, who authored Valmiki Ramayana, the present oldest available version of Ramayana.

Detailed explanation-5: -Many versions of the Ramayana have been written since Sage Valmiki first composed his epic. Since then, over 300 original Ramayanas have been composed in Sanskrit as well as in several regional languages of India.