Tulsidas

He was a contemporary of Akbar.
He wrote ‘Ramcharit Manas’ in the language of Avadi
He founded the Sankatmochan Templededicated to Lord Hanuman in Varanasi, believed to stand at the place where he had the sight of the deity
Tulsidas started the Ramlilaplays, a folk-theatre adaption of the Ramayana
Other works of Tulsidas include: Dohavali, Sahitya ratna or Ratna Ramayan, Gitavali , Krishna Gitavali or Krishnavali and Vinaya Patrika