Who was Tulsidas?

About Tulasidas:

• Tulsidas, whose real name was Ram Bola Dubey, wrote the Ramcharitmanas on the banks of the Ganga in Varanasi. 
• The Ramcharitmanas was written in the 16th century in the Awadhi dialect, which is primarily spoken in the districts of Lucknow, Prayagraj, and Ayodhya.
• He was a contemporary of Emperor Akbar and is thought to have corresponded with Abdurrahim Khan-e-Khanan, the son of Akbar’s commander Bairam Khan.
• Tulsidas popularised the story of Lord Ram because he wrote in the regional dialect that most people understood. 
• This enraged ancient Sanskrit scholars, and Tulsidas documented his anguish in his Kavitawali.

Q1) What is Dohavali?

Dohavali is a literally Collection of Dohas, is a work of Tulasidas consisting of 573 miscellaneous Doha and Sortha verses mainly in Braja with some verses in Awadhi.

Source: Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas, and criticism of the holy book

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