Reading the Ramcharitmanas
Tulsidas wrote the Ramcharitmanas in Awadhi, and modern Awadhi helps you read it.
How It Works
The Ramcharitmanas is the best-known long poem in Awadhi. Tulsidas wrote it in the 1570s. Many families in the Awadhi region read it at home, and it is sung or recited on many evenings.
The language is literary, not a record of how people talked. It has older forms and some words from Sanskrit and nearby languages. Still, a speaker of modern Awadhi finds a lot they know: राम, बन, घर, पानी.
| In the Manas | In today's speech |
|---|---|
| मोहि | हमका |
| कीन्ह | किहिस |
| सुनहु | सुनौ |
| कहँ | का |
Read slowly, line by line. Notice the verb endings first, then the pronouns.
Do not copy these forms in conversation. They belong to the poem.
Examples (4)
- राम बन गए।
Ram went to the forest.
राम and बन are the same in the Manas and today.
- तुलसीदास जी मानस अवधी मा लिखिन।
Tulsidas wrote the Manas in Awadhi.
लिखिन is the respect form for Tulsidas.
- मानस मा बहुत सब्द आजु कै अवधी मा भी मिलत अहैं।
Many words in the Manas are found in today's Awadhi too.
The sentence says what readers can use.
- गाँव मा लोग साँझ के बेरा मानस पढ़त अहैं।
In villages people read the Manas in the evening.
साँझ के बेरा uses के in a time phrase.
How It Connects
Learn This First
The Ramcharitmanas runs in चौपाई and दोहा.
Related Patterns
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