Ramcharitmanas Vol I

Tulsidas
Translated by Rohini Chowdhury

Tulsidas’s epic retelling of the story of Ram, now in a lucid three-volume translation.

Tulsidas, amongst the most important of the saint–poets of the medieval bhakti movement in northern India, is also Hindi’s most renowned poet. In the sixteenth century, he wrote his Ramcharitmanas , a retelling of the story of Ram, the legendary prince of Avadh. Composed in Avadhi, the spoken language of the people, it enjoyed instant popular appeal. It soon became—and remains—the dominant and accepted version of Ram’s story in the Hindi-speaking north.

Rohini Chowdhury’s elegant translation brings Tulsidas’s magnum opus vividly to life.
The translation also includes a comprehensive introduction to the poet and his work.

ISBN: 9780143425878
Publisher: Penguin Random House India, 2019