Tulsidas was a legendary poet and philosopher. Tulsidas is the author of the 'Ramcharitmanas', one of the greatest epics ever written. His full name was Goswami Tulsidas and he was born in 1532 A.D. in Rajpur, in the Banda district of Uttar Pradesh, India, during the reign of Mughal Emperor, Akbar. Beginning his work in 1574, Tulsidas went on to pen down several other works of great literary merit, however, his greatest masterpiece is the epic titled 'Ramcharitmanas', ('The Lake of the Deeds of Rama'), which contains sweet couplets in beautiful rhyme known as 'chaupai' solely devoted to Lord Rama. The literary worth of Tulsidas has been highlighted by Acharya Ram Chandra Shukla in his critical work Hindi Sahitya Ka Itihaas. Acharya Shukla has elaborated Tulsi's Lokmangal as the doctrine for social upliftment which made this great poet immortal and comparable to any other world litterateur. The book contains the literary work of Tulsidas.

By Vaidya Bhagwan Dash