Goswami Tulsidas studied Sanskrit grammar, four Vedas, six Vedangas, Jyotisha and the six schools of Hindu philosophy over a period of 15–16 years from guru Shesha Sanatana who was based at the Pancaganga Ghat in Varanasi.Shesha Sanatana was a friend of Narharidas and a renowned scholar on literature and philosophy.After completing his studies, Goswami Tulsidas came back to his birthplace Rajapur with the permission of Shesha Sanatana. Here he found that his family was no more, with his parents dead. Goswami Tulsidas performed the Shraddha ceremony(which deals with giving offerings to the ancestors) of his parents. He started living in his ancestral home and narrating the Katha(story) of Ramayana in Chitrakuta of Lord RAMA called as Ramcharit Manas.