Tulsidas was born in 1532 A.D in the village of Rajapur in Banda District near Prayag, Allahabad. His father, Atma Ram Dubey was a well-known Saryupari Brahmin and his mother's name was Hulsi. When Tulsidas was born he did not cry and there were teeth in his mouth. Considering this a bad omen his mother sent him to her in laws place to be brought up and she died the next day.This child was lovingly brought up by a servant named Chunia but after she died when the child was five and a half years old he became an orphan and would just roam here and there. Shri Narhaya Nandji a saint found him and gave him protection and took him to Ayodhya with him. The young boy soon impressed every one with his sharp intellect. Then for fifteen years Tulsidas remained in Kashi and studied the Vedas. After this he returned to his native place and married a beautiful girl named Ratnavali. Legend has it that he was so engrossed in his wife that he would not leave her alone and once when she went to visit her parents he crossed the river Ganges which was flooded with the help of a dead body and reached her. His wife was very angry with him and she remarked that he was so much in love with her body which is made of mere skin and bones and which will soon be destroyed and had he had this kind of love for Shri Ram his life would be free of worldly things. This struck a cord and Tulsidas immediately returned back and became a sanyasi leaving the married life. He came back to Allahabad and then traveled to Chitrakoot and sitting on the banks of ganges he became enlightened. He started composing the Ramcharitra Manas in 1574 A.D. and all the seven sections were over after two years ,seven months and twenty six days.