Tulsidas was a great scholar of Sanskrit, but he chose to write his book in Awadhi, a dialect of Hindi spoken in Uttar ... not name his book Ramayana, but Ramcharitmanas. Here, Ramcharit means ...

All 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh were immersed in spiritual fervour as the Akhand Paath (continuous recitation) of Shri Ramcharitmanas began on the sacred occasion of Ashtami during Chaitra Navratri ...

Taking the ideas of the Bhakti saints who came before him, Tulsidas wrote the Ramcharitmanas, which is acknowledged as one of the greatest poems not just of Hindi or India but the entire world.