[5] He is famous as the author of Shunya Purana,[6] the scripture of Dharma Puja Bidhan, written in the 11th century AD.
American Sanskrit scholar Edward Washburn Hopkins wrote in his "Origin and Evolution of Religion" in 1923 that, According to a story, Ramai was the son of an unpopular Brahman sage; after his father's death, Ramai was Rama-kathai or Ramavataram Ramapala-charita.
According to the traditional accounts preserved by the Bengali Dom caste, as well as Mayur Bhatta's narrative, Ramai Pandit was born to either an unpopular Brahmin family and after having lost his parents at an early age he was brought up by devotees of Dharma Thakur.
[10] Ramai Pandit advocated the worship of God, whom he called Dharma and Shunya.
Though Ramai Pandit was a devotee of Dharmathakur, in his Dharma Puja Bidhan he praises several other deities.