DŌHĀVALĪ of Goswami Tulsidas: Roman Transliteration of Original Text, English Exposition with detailed Notes

Book Synopsis: This Book is a full English exposition of ‘Dohawali’, an excellent and fascinating Book of wonderful 573 two-line verses called ‘Dohas’ that had been composed by the renowned 16th century legendary Indian saint-poet Goswami Tulsidas. The Book has the entire Original Text of ‘Dohawali’ along with its Roman Transliteration that is followed by verse-by-verse English rendering, and is augmented by notes and further explanations in great detail, making it quite exhaustive.

Since these ‘Dohas’ are stand-alone verses, each distinct from the other and covering between themselves a wide variety of topics, two special indices are provided that help the reader, one at the beginning and one at the end. The first index lists the Dohas according to their topics, and the second index according to selected keywords.

This book also includes a life-sketch of Tulsidas along with a list of all the books he had written and a brief note about each of them. The ‘Dohas’ of DOHAWALI are a priceless and glorious collection of pearls of wisdom and gems of priceless advice that this blessed saint Tulsidas offers to us as a guide to answer so many questions that arise in our minds in our daily lives and during the course of our journey in this world for which we seek a practical answer.

The ‘Dohas’ show us how Tulsidas closely observed the world and deductions that he arrived at. They are devotional as well as secular in nature, covering a wide variety of subjects from the mundane and temporal world to the spiritual and the ethereal world. A lot many of these verses are also included in Tulsidas’ famous epic known as ‘Ram Charit Manas’ which is a narration of the story of Lord Ram that is popularly known as the Ramayana.

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