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Who was the founder of the Ramanandi Sampradaya, the largest monastic Hindu renunciant community in modern times?
A
Ramananda
B
Kabir
C
Mirabai
D
Tukaram
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Sri Ramanandacharya (IAST: Rāmānanda) was a 14th-century Vaishnava devotional poet saint, who lived in the Gangetic basin of northern India. The Hindu tradition recognizes him as the founder of the Ramanandi Sampradaya, the largest monastic Hindu renunciant community in modern times.

Detailed explanation-2: -The correct answer is Tulsidas. Tulsidas was the reformer and philosopher from Ramanandi Sampradaya in the lineage of Jagadguru Ramanandacharya.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ramananda sect is the largest sect of Vaishnavas, out of 52 gates of Vaishnavism, 36 are held by Ramanandi’s.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ramananda was a saint in the Bhakti movement who popularized the worship of Ram and Sita. Kabir is considered among the twelve of his popular disciples. Kabir is also a saint who was initially brought up in a Muslim family but later was influenced by Ramananda’s teachings.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ramanandi, Sanskrit Rāmānandī, also called Ramavat, in Hinduism, a Vaishnavite (devotee of the god Vishnu) follower of Ramananda, a religious and social reformer of the 15th century. Ramanandis worship Vishnu’s avatar (incarnation) in Rama as the one true god.

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