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natured monarch, who probably thought his collector more fool than knave, set him at liberty. He retired to Brindavan and there continued to lead a religious and ascetic life.
The account of Tulasi Dás in the Bhakta Málá represents him as having been incited to the peculiar adoration of Rána by the remonstrances of his wife, to whom he was passionately attached: he adopted a vagrant life, visited Benares, and afterwards went to Chitrakúta, where he had a personal interview with Hanumán, from whom he received his poetical inspiration, and the power of working miracles: his fame reached Dehli, where ShảH JEHÁn was emperor: the monarch sent for him to produce the person of RÁMA, which Tulasi Dás refusing to do, the king threw him into confinement; the people of the vicinity, however, speedily petitioned for his liberation, as they were alarmed for their own security: myriads of monkies having collected about the prison, and begun to demolish it, and the adjacent buildings. Sháu JEHÁN set the poet at liberty, and desired him to solicit some favour as a reparation for the indignity he had suffered: Tulasi Dás, accordingly, requested him to quit ancient Dehli, which was the abode of Ráma, and in compliance with this request the emperor left it, and founded the new city, thence named Shah Jehúnábád. After this, Tulasi Dás went to Brindárun, where he had an interview with NÁBHÁJI: he settleil there, and strenuously advocated the worship of Sitá Ráma, in preference to that of Rádhá Krishnu.
