{"id":3859,"date":"2023-01-29T02:52:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T21:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3859"},"modified":"2025-03-26T19:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:21:10","slug":"who-was-tulsidas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/who-was-tulsidas\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Tulsidas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Tulasidas:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Tulsidas, whose real name was Ram Bola Dubey, wrote <strong>the Ramcharitmanas<\/strong> on the banks of the Ganga in Varanasi.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Ramcharitmanas was written in the 16th century in the <strong>Awadhi dialect,<\/strong> which is primarily spoken in the districts of Lucknow, Prayagraj, and Ayodhya.<\/li>\n<li>He was a contemporary of <strong>Emperor Akbar <\/strong>and is thought to have corresponded with Abdurrahim Khan-e-Khanan, the son of Akbar&#8217;s commander Bairam Khan.<\/li>\n<li>Tulsidas popularised the story of <strong>Lord Ram<\/strong> because he wrote in the regional dialect that most people understood.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This enraged ancient Sanskrit scholars, and Tulsidas documented his anguish in his Kavitawali.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Dohavali?<\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/ramcharitmanas-of-tulsidas-and-criticism-of-the-holy-book-8408589\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas, and criticism of the holy book<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tulsidas, whose real name was Ram Bola Dubey, wrote the Ramcharitmanas on the banks of the Ganga in Varanasi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}