of Ram."

Manuscripts

A manuscript of the Ramcharitatmanas dated to 1648 CE is kept at a Hanuman temple in Tulsi Ghat, Varanasi.

Structure

Ramcharitmanas consists of seven Kands (literally "books" or "episodes", cognate with cantos) and composed of approximately 12,800 lines, divided into 1,073 stanzas. Tulsidas compared the seven Kandas of the epic to seven steps leading into the holy waters of Lake Manasarovar

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