Lord Rama with his devotee monkey Hanuman

Rama ( Sanskrit: राम) or Ram, also known as Ramachandra IAST: Rāmacandra, Sanskrit: रामचन्द्र, is a major deity in Hinduism. He is the seventh avatar of Vishnu, one of his most popular incarnations along with Krishna, Parshurama, and Gautama Buddha. Jain Texts also mentioned Rama as the eighth balabhadra among the 63 salakapurusas. In Sikhism, Rama is mentioned as one of twenty four divine incarnations of Vishnu in the Chaubis Avtar in Dasam Granth. In Rama-centric traditions of Hinduism.