The holy lake of the acts of Rama
| Title | The holy lake of the acts of Rama |
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| Original title | Sri Rama Carita Manasa; Ramacaritamanasa; Ramcharitmanas |
| Author | an English translation of Tulasi Das's Ramacaritamanasa by W. Douglas P. Hill |
| Publication | Oxford Univ. Pr. |
| Size | XXXVII, 538p |
| Language |  ENG |
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| Topics |
Indian poetry--Hindi--Devotional Indian poetry--Hindi--Translated into English Bhakti--Poetry Rama (Hindu deity) |
| Notes | Ramcharitmanas is considered as one of the greatest works of Hindi literature. The work has been acclaimed as "the living sum of Indian culture", "the tallest tree in the magic garden of medieval Indian poetry", "the greatest book of all devotional literature" and "the best and most trustworthy guide to the popular living faith of the Indian people". The core of the work is considered by some to be a poetic retelling of the events of the Sanskrit epic Ramayana, centered on the narrative of Rama, the scion of the family tree of Raghu of the Sun Dynasty and the crown prince of Ayodhya who is also considered in Hindu tradition as one of the Avataras of Vishnu. However, Tulsidas never alludes to Ramcharitmanas as being a retelling of Valmiki Ramayana. He calls the epic Ramcharitmanas as the story of Rama was stored in the mind (MÄnasa) of Shiva before he narrated the same to His consort Parvati. Tulsidas claims to have received the story through his guru, Narharidas. Ramcharitmanas, for the first time in the history of North India, made available the story of Rama to the common man to sing, meditate and perform on. [wikipedia] |
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