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Ramnagar Ramlila: a town that becomes the Ramayana

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The audience walks from Panchavati to Lanka on foot.

Ramnagar Ramlila (c. 1830, Kashi Naresh Udit Narayan Singh) runs 31 days reciting the whole Ramcharitmanas. The town is the set with stages named Ashoka Vatika, Panchavati and Lanka. Tradition credits Tulsidas's student Megha Bhagat with the first Ramlila in 1625. UNESCO listed Ramlila in 2008.

Who: Tulsidas, Megha Bhagat, Udit Narayan Singh

Bound to

Ramcharitmanas: three conversations nested inside each other located-at

Places: Ramnagar, Varanasi, Ayodhya, Vrindavan, Almora, Bali

Where this comes from

• folk-oral · Wikipedia: Ramlila

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