Nabhadas was a contemporary of Tulsidas and wrote a six-line stanza on Tulsidas describing him as an incarnation of Valmiki. Till late nineteenth century, the two widely known ancient sources on Tulsidas' life were the Bhaktamal composed by Nabhadas between 15, and a commentary on Bhaktamal titled Bhaktirasbodhini composed by Priyadas in 1712. Tulsidas himself has given only a few facts and hints about events of his life in various works. Picture of Tulsidas published in the Ramcharitmanas, by Sri Ganga Publishers, Gai Ghat, Benaras, 1949 The name is a compound of two Sanskrit words: Tulasī, which is an Indian variety of the basil plant considered auspicious by Vaishnavas (devotees of god Vishnu and his avatars like Rama), and Dāsa, which means slave or servant and by extension, devotee. The lost vowels are an aspect of the Schwa deletion in Indo-Aryan languages and can vary between regions. Using the Hunterian transliteration system, it is written as Tulsidas or Tulsīdās reflecting the vernacular pronunciation (since the written Indian languages maintain the vestigial letters that are no longer pronounced).
Using the original Sanskrit, the name is written as Tulasīdāsa. The Sanskrit name of Tulsidas can be transliterated in two ways. 1.4.4 Darshan of Yajnavalkya and Bharadvaja.
1.3.3 Initiation from guru and learning.The impact of Tulsidas and his works on the art, culture and society in India is widespread and is seen to date in vernacular language, Ramlila plays, Hindustani classical music, popular music, and television series. He has been acclaimed as one of the greatest poets in Hindi, Indian, and world literature. Tulsidas started the Ramlila plays, a folk-theatre adaption of the Ramayana. He founded the Sankatmochan Temple dedicated to Lord Hanuman in Varanasi, believed to stand at the place where he had the sight of the deity.
The Tulsi Ghat on the Ganges River in Varanasi is named after him. Tulsidas spent most of his life in the city of Varanasi and Ayodhya. He wrote several popular works in Sanskrit and Awadhi, but is best known as the author of the epic Ramcharitmanas, a retelling of the Sanskrit Ramayana based on Rama's life in the vernacular Awadhi. Tulsidas ( Hindi pronunciation: 1532 –1623), also known as Goswami Tulsidas, was a Ramanandi Vaishnava Hindu saint and poet, renowned for his devotion to the deity Rama. I bow down to the whole world by folding both hands, considering all of it to be a manifestation of Sita and Rama.