The poet of the Ramcharitmanas outlived Shakespeare by seven years
The Hindi poet-saint Tulsīdās completed his epic retelling of the Rāma story, the Rāmcaritmānas, around 1577 — years before William Shakespeare, then still a boy in Stratford, would write a line for the London stage. As Shakespeare went on to his plays, Tulsīdās's finished epic was already being recited across northern India, and the two men's lives ran on in parallel: Tulsīdās lived until 1623, dying at Assi Ghat in Varanasi seven years after Shakespeare's death in 1616.
How we know
Tulsīdās began the Rāmcaritmānas at Ayodhya in 1574 CE and completed it c.1576/77; he died in 1623 at Assi Ghat, Varanasi (traditional dates). Shakespeare baptized April 1564, died 23 April 1616; his London career began c.1590, after the Rāmcaritmānas was complete. 1623 − 1616 = 7.
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