Tulsidas Ramayana: Ram Charit Manas

by Anant Pai, Dilip Kadam (Illustrator)

Tulsidas (1574) tells the story of Ram, the prince of Ayodhya, in Awadhi, a dialect of Hindi spoken in Awadh in Uttar Pradesh. The work consists of about a thousand stanzas, each about 12 to 18 lines, set in elegant rhyme. Every village and town in the Hindi heartland has a troupe that gives a theatrical performance, called Ramlila, based on Tulsidas' work. Ramlila is enacted as part of the Vijaya Dashami celebrations.

Genres: Mythology, Comics, India, Graphic Novels Comics, Fiction

35 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 1, 2011

About the author

Anant Pai popularly known as Uncle Pai, was an Indian educationalist and creator of Indian comics, in particular the Amar Chitra Katha series in 1967, along with the India Book House publishers, and which retold traditional Indian folk tales, mythological stories, and biographies of historical characters. In 1980, he launched Tinkle, a children's anthology, which was started under Rang Rekha Features, India's first comic and cartoon syndicate, that lasted till 1998, with him as the Managing Director.

Today, Amar Chitra Katha sells about three million comic books a year, in English and more than 20 Indian languages, and has sold about 100 million copies since it inception in 1967 by Anant Pai, and in 2007 was taken over by ACK Media.

Reviews

[Sathya Raghunathan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book. The pictures are beautiful and lively. The emotions of Ram,sita and others have been brought out nicely through the pictures. I felt that I was transported to Treta yuga and witnessed everything myself. Thanks to all those who came up with such a wonderful book

[Nitya Rawal · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the most beautiful and poetic version of the Ramayana! It just makes your soul sing...

[Dev · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got this book with Paperboat, thanks to them, I enjoyed reading it too much. It took me back to me days of Comics.

[AllAboutAnjali · Rating 5 out of 5]

Obviously I've read the original version of Ramayana written by Valmiki, translated from Sanskrit to Prakrut by Tulsidas. That just isn't available here and this one was closest to the name I could find here so.

And yes you can't rate it properly because you won't be left with anything to rate after reading and understanding and realising this Puran.

[BookishWriter · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was a very good book of lord ram and lakshman. Spoiler alert !!!
I don't love it nor hate it, as I'm on both sides. (Not with the demons! I think its good and boring.)

[Nimansh · Rating 5 out of 5]

This ramayana is very well explained and children will understand it.
The drawings and scetches too are really good .
i rate it 5 star

[Deeksha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun to read, though an important point or two was missing from the story in some places. And the sentence structure was a bit weird in places. Overall, it was fun to revisit this.

[Vaishnavi Rai · Rating 5 out of 5]

Its one of the best books I have all 3 Ramayana versions Valmiki, then Bala kand and all the other kands and Tulsidas Ramayana

[Anand Kappagantula · Rating 5 out of 5]

great Ithihasa

My daughter loved it and will read The great epic Ramayana again . Jai Rama Sri Rama Jai Jai Rama

[Sanketh T.J · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very indepth and insightful

I have read the ramayan as a book but reading it as a comic was a great experience. Very well written.

[Kalaivani D.R · Rating 4 out of 5]

How to stay brave like Ram Hanuman naal Neel sajeev the king of monkeys the reason meaning of my name and life be brave like Ram victory O ram

[Srikanth Sreedharan · Rating 1 out of 5]

An excellent opportunity to revisit the familiar epic and enjoy the divine experience through the eyes of Tulsi Das. The text is strewn with direct quotations from Tulsidas' work, possibly well-known quotations for Hindi readers which are pretty new to non-Hindi speakers. Reading this comic made me refer to the original text online. There are good Hindi transliterations of the original Awadhi verses.
I only wish a similar treatment could be given in such a pleasantly visual form to Kamban's Tamil version of the epic.

[Pallavi Kamat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Revisiting mythology is always a good idea. You learn something new every time. Was Ram good? Was Raavan evil? Are there shades of grey in each of us, even Gods? Throws up quite a few interesting questions.

[Ucp]

very informative

[Hrishabh · Rating 2 out of 5]

A very basic story of the Ramayan.

[Gaurav Jha · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Advit Verma · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an amazing book for young readers to learn about Indian mythology.

[Varnit · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great mythological book for all ages, that too comics! Who can refuse?

[Shinichi Kudo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very very good!!