Local Government in Ancient India c6.s1.18

c6.s1.18

The phase of thought and religious emotion which uttered itself in the rapturous poetry of Jayadeva received a continued expression through the great mystics of the Middle Ages, such as Vallabha, Mīrā Bāī, Vidyāpati, and the like, and the greater poets of Akbar's days, such as Kṛṣṇadās and the blind bard Sūrdās, while *Tulsi-krit-Rāmāyaṇa* constitutes in itself the Vedas, Upaniṣads, and Purāṇas of the unlettered millions of Hindustān, to whom it presents their sole norm of conduct. In the reign of Jahāngīr the religion taught by Tulsīdās was spread throughout Ajmer and Rajputana by the disciples of Dādū, a cotton cleaner of Ahmadābād, and founder of the Dādupanth sect.