“No poet in England has ever been in the masses what Tulsidas has been to the people of this land.”

—  Tulsidas

Edwin Greaves, in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 35
On Tulsidas’s epic Ramacharritamanas

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