संवत सोरह सै इकतीसा
करौं कथा हरिपद धरि सीसा
श्री श्री
THE
RAMAYANA OF TULSI DAS
TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL HINDI
BY
F. S. GROWSE, B.C.S.;
M.A., OxON; C.I.B.;
Magistrate and Collector of Bulandshahr,
Fellow of the Calcutta University.
REVISED AND ILLUSTRATED
"The Ramayana of Tulsi Das is more popular and more honoured by the
people of the North- Western Provinces than the Bible is by the cor-
responding people in England."
GRIFFITH.
ALLAHABAD:
NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCES AND OUDH GOVERNMENT PRESS
1883.
संवत सोरह सै असी असी गंग के तीर
सावण शुक्ला सत्तमी तुलसी तज्यो शरीर
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राम चरित मानस यह नामा सुनत स्रवन पाइय बिस्रामा
मन करि बिषय अनल बन जरहीं होइं सुखी जे इहिं सर परहीं
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जो यह कथा सनेह समेता कहिंहहिं सुनिहहिं समझि सचेता
होइहहिं राम चरन अनुरागी कलिमल रहित सुमंगल भागी
Table of Contents CONTENTS.
Page
Introduction ... ... ... ... i-xx
Book I. — Childhood ... ... ... ... 1
Book II. — Ayodhya ... ... ... ... 181
Book III. — The Forest ... ... ... ... 333
Book IV. — Kishkindha ... ... ... ... 367
Book V. — The Beautiful ... ... ... ... 387
Book VI. — Lanka ... ... ... ... 419
Book VII. - The Sequel ... ... ... ... 493
Index ... ... ... ... 569
Illustrations ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
Tulsi Dás's Hermitage, Banáras (to face title)
Siva's Wrath 46
Kausalya's Vision 101
The trial of the Bow 128
Ráma's marriage 157
Dasarath's distress 198
Bharat's visit to Chitra-kút 289
The Council at Chitra-kút 296
Chitra-kút 333
Sitapur, on the river Paisuni 367
Tulsi Dás's cell, Réjapur 387
Lanká besieged 419
Angad's boast 437
Kumbha-karn devouring the monkeys 454
Rávan's magic power 472
Ráma enthroned 493
Ráma's Court 504
