Gosvami Tulsidas was a poet-saint who lived in the sixteenth century in the holy city of Varanasi. He was a devotee of Lord Rama, and his best-known work is the Ramacharitmanas, a retelling of the Ramayana in Avadhi, a North Indian vernacular of the day. Tulsidas’s influence on art, culture, and society continues to be widespread throughout India.