Ranked #48 in Vedas
Rāmcharitmānas literally means the "Lake of the Deeds of Rām".Tulsidas compared the seven kānds (literally 'books', cognate of cantos) of the epic to seven steps leading into the holy waters of a Himalayan lake (or mānas, as in Lake Mansarovar or Manasbal Lake) which "which purifies the body and the soul at once." The core of the work is a poetic retelling of the events of the Sanskrit epic Ramayana, centered on the narrative of Rām, the crown prince of Ayodhya. The great poem is also called Tulsi-krit Ramayan (literally, 'Tulsi-created Ramayan' or, more loosely, 'The Ramayan of Tulsidas'. more