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.
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जो यह कथा सनेह समेता कहिंहहिं सुनिहहिं समझि सचेता
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