Tulasi Vrindavana

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A Tulasi Vrindavana (tulasi shrine) in courtyard, India.

A Tulasi Vrindavana (

Hindu houses, housing the sacred tulasi plant.[1] Tulasi is an aromatic plant in the family Lamiaceae, native throughout the tropics, and widespread as a cultivated plant and an escaped weed.[2]

The structure is also known as Tulasi Thara (Malayalam: തുളസിത്തറ), Tulasi Chaura or Tulasi Vrindavan (Odia: ତୁଳସୀ ଚଉରା), Tulasi Brindavanam (Tamil: துளசி பிருந்தாவனம்), and Tulasi Brundavanam (Telugu: తులసి బృందావనం) in Indian regional languages.

Significance

Main article: Tulasi in Hinduism

Hindu literature personifies the tulasi plant as the goddess Tulasi. According to a legend from the Brahma Vaivarta Purana, Saraswati, Ganga, and Lakshmi were the three wives of the preserver deity, Vishnu. An argument once ensued between a resentful Saraswati and Ganga, with the latter being accused of trying to get too close to their common husband. Lakshmi attempted to pacify both of them, but in the ensuing quarrel, the three of them had cursed each other to be incarnated on earth: Saraswati and Ganga became rivers, while Lakshmi incarnated as the tulasi plant.[3]

In a different legend from the

Devi Bhagavata Purana, Lakshmi incarnated herself as Tulasi, the daughter of King Dharmadhvaja. She married Shankacuda, a wicked asura who was the incarnation of Krishna's friend, Sudama. Shiva fought Shankacuda in a battle, but the latter proved to be an invincible opponent due to his wife's fidelity to him. Vishnu assumed the guise of Shankacuda, and made love to Tulasi, until she realised that he was an imposter. As she was about to curse him, Vishnu informed her of her true identity as his consort. Shiva was able to defeat the asura in the conflict. Liberated from earthly existence, Sudama returned to Goloka, while Tulasi transferred her earthly form to the tulasi plant, and rejoined Vishnu as Lakshmi in Vaikuntha.[4]

Tulasi Vivaha

Main article: Tulasi Vivaha

A ceremony known as

Chaturmasya period, which corresponds to the monsoon, considered inauspicious for weddings and other rituals. This day inaugurates the annual marriage season in India.[5][6]

Gallery

  • Tulasi Vrindavan in Kerala; also known as a tulasittara in Malayalam.
    Tulasi Vrindavan in Kerala; also known as a tulasittara in Malayalam.
  • Tulasi Brundavanam or Tulasi Kota in a Telugu household.
    Tulasi Brundavanam or Tulasi Kota in a Telugu household.
  • Tulasi Vrindavan in Kerala.
    Tulasi Vrindavan in Kerala.
  • Tulasi Mancha at Radhamadhab Temple in West Bengal.
    Tulasi Mancha at Radhamadhab Temple in West Bengal.
  • Tulasi Vrindavan in a rural house.
    Tulasi Vrindavan in a rural house.
  • A woman from Maharashtra watering tulasi in 1970s.
    A woman from Maharashtra watering tulasi in 1970s.

References

  1. ^ www.wisdomlib.org (17 May 2018). "Tulasivrindavana, Tulasīvṛndāvana, Tulasi-vrindavana, Tulasivrimdavana: 7 definitions". www.wisdomlib.org. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  2. ISBN 978-0-8248-2094-7
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  3. ISBN 978-81-212-1016-4
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  4. ^ Books, Kausiki (24 October 2021). Narada Purana Part 1: English Translation only without Slokas. Kausiki Books. p. 115.
  5. ISBN 978-0-631-21535-6
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  6. ^ "Tulsi Vivah". Sanatan Sanstha. 18 October 2000. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
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