Ramcharitmanas was composed at Ayodhya, Varanasi and Chitrakoot. The exact date is stated within the poem as being the ninth day of the month of Chaitra, which is the birthday of Rama, Rama Navami. Tulsidas began writing the Ramcharitmanas in Ayodhya in Vikram Samvat 1631 (1574 CE). Picture of author, Tulsidas published in the Ramcharitmanas, 1949. Ramcharitmanas is considered by many as a work belonging to the Saguna school of the Bhakti movement in Hindi literature. The writing of Ramcharitmanas also heralded many a cultural tradition, most significantly that of the tradition of Ramlila, the dramatic enactment of the text. Ramcharitmanas, made available the story of Rama to the common man to sing, meditate and perform on.
Subsequently, his work was widely accepted.
However, Tulsidas remained steadfast in his resolve to simplify the knowledge contained in the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Puranas to the common people. Tradition has it that Tulsidas had to face much criticism from the Sanskrit scholars of Varanasi for being a bhasha (vernacular) poet. In order to make the story of Rama as accessible to the layman as to the scholar, Tulsidas chose to write in Awadhi. However, he wanted the story of Rama to be accessible to the general public, as many Apabhramsa languages had evolved from Sanskrit and at that time few people could understand Sanskrit. Tulsidas was a great scholar of Sanskrit.
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