The Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas was composed in which language?
- A.Braj
- B.Awadhi
- C.Maithili
- D.Sanskrit
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Awadhi. Tulsidas retold the story of Rama in the Awadhi speech of eastern Uttar Pradesh, which put the epic within reach of people who could not read Sanskrit and made the Ramcharitmanas the most widely recited devotional work of north India. Option A, Braj, was the language of Surdas, whose Sursagar sings of the childhood of Krishna, and of much of the Krishna poetry of the Ashtachhap poets. Option C, Maithili, was the language of Vidyapati of Mithila. Option D is wrong, and it is the trap in this question: the Sanskrit Ramayana of Valmiki is a different and far older work, and the whole point of Tulsidas was to compose in the spoken language. Tulsidas also wrote the Vinay Patrika and the Hanuman Chalisa is traditionally attributed to him.
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- A.the Hell
- B.a graveyard
- C.a hospice
- D.the Heaven
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- C.Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
- D.Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya
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- C.Shaikh Salim Chisti
- D.Muhammad Maharavi
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- C.Guru Ram Das
- D.Guru Nanak Dev
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- A.Shiva
- B.Vishnu
- C.Surya
- D.Shakti
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