Bhakti Kāvya

Long-form devotional poetry, including vernacular retellings of the epics. A retelling is not the epic — Rāmacaritamānas is bhakti poetry; Vālmīki's Rāmāyaṇa is Itihāsa.

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Shri Ramcharitmanas (Tulsi Ramayana)

श्रीरामचरितमानस (तुलसी रामायण)

Tulsidas's 16th-century retelling of the Rāma story in Awadhi — not a translation of Vālmīki's Sanskrit epic but the version most Hindi speakers actually grew up with.

Goswami Tulsidas · 7 Chapters