Ramcharitmanas (श्रीरामचरितमानस) or Ramacharitamanasa or Ramayana

Ramcharitmanas (श्रीरामचरितमानस) or Ramacharitamanasa or Ramayana.

-It is an epic poem in Awadhi dialect of Hindi, composed by the
16th-century Indian bhakti poet Goswami Tulsi Das  (c.1532–1623).

- Ramcharitmanas literally means "Lake of the deeds of Rama".

- Considered as one of the greatest works of Hindiliterature . The work has been acclaimed
as "the living sum of Indian culture", "the tallest tree in the magic garden of medieval Indian poetry", "the greatest book of all devotional literature" and "the
best and most trustworthy guide to the popular living faith of the Indian people".

Ramayana or Ramcharitmanas.

The core of the work is considered by some to be a poetic retelling of the events of the Sanskrit epic Ramayana , centered on the narrative of Rama, the scion of the
family tree of Raghu of the Sun Dynasty and the crown prince of Ayodhya who is also considered in Hindu tradition as one of the Avataras of Vishnu .
However, Tulsidas never alludes to Ramcharitmanas as being a retelling of Valmiki Ramayana.
He calls the epic Ramcharitmanas as the story of Rama was stored in the mind (Mānasa) of Shiva before he narrated the same to His consort Parvati. Tulsidas
claims to have received the story through his guru, Narharidas. Tulsidas was unconscious and the story was stored in his mind (Mānasa) for long before he wrote it down as Ramcharitmanas . The epic poem is, therefore, also referred to as Tulsikrit
Ramayana (literally, The Ramayana composed by Tulsidas ).

Different Parts.

The Ramcharitmanas consists of seven Kāndas (i.e. parts or books). Tulsi Das compared the seven Kāndas (literally "books" or "episodes", cognate with cantos) of the epic to seven steps leading
into the holy waters of Lake Manasarovar "which purifies the body and the soul at once".

UNIQUE Feature.

- A unique feature of Ramacharitmanas is that at least one of the four letters s, t, r,
m (symbolizing SitaRam) is present in every line of this epic.

Accessibility in Vernacular Language.

- Ramcharitmanas , for the first time in the history of North India , made available the story of Rama to the common man to sing, meditate and perform on. Tulsi Das was a great scholar of Sanskrit . However,he wanted the story of Rama to be accessible to the general masses and not just the Sanskrit-speaking elite. In order to make the story of Rama as accessible to the layman as to the scholar, Tulsi Das chose to write in Awadhi , a local dialect
of Hindi which was in vogue as the
language of general parlance in large parts of north India during the composition of the work. Tradition has it that Tulsidas had to face a lot of criticism from the sanskrit scholars of Varanasi for
being a bhasha(vernacular) poet.
However, Tulsidas remained steadfast in his resolve for simplifying the knowledge of the Vedas and Upanishads to the common people and was! subsequently accepted by all. The writing of Ramcharitmanas also heralded many a cultural tradition, most significantly that of the tradition of Ramlila , the dramatic enactment of the text.

- Related with Bhakti Movement.

The Ramcharitmanas is considered by many as a work  to the Saguna school of the Bhakti movement in Hindi literature .