Random readings from the beautiful text Sri Ram Charit Manas, in Awadhi dialect of Hindi from Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India, composed about 500 years ago, by Goswami Tulsidas ji, one of my favourite poets. 

Sri Ram has inspired many writers, including his contemporary, about 7500 years ago, Maharshi Valmiki. He wrote Valmiki Ramayan in Sanskrit. It is one of the two 'Itihasa' texts in Indian literature. Itihas means, this is how it happened, or factual documentation. The other Itihasa text is Mahabharat or Jaygranth by Maharshi Ved Vyas ji, a contemporary of the protagonists in that text.