Tulsidas
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Hindu saint and poet
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rambola Dubey popularly known by his title Tulsidas or Goswami Tulsidas, was a Vaishnava Hindu saint and poet, renowned for his devotion to the deity Rama. He wrote several popular works in Sanskrit, Awadhi, and Braj, but is best known as the author of the Hanuman Chalisa and of the epic Ramcharitmanas, a retelling of the Sanskrit Ramayana based on Rama's life in the vernacular Awadhi.
