Meanwhile, the bride's father ties the tali round her neck in the vadakkini, and her mother gives her a garland of tulasi (Ocimum sanctum).
I adore that tulasi in whose roots are all the sacred places of pilgrimage, in whose centre are all the deities, and in whose upper branches are all the Vedas.
The daily prayer offered to the tulasi is thus rendered by Monier Williams.
Among plants, thetulasi or sacred basil (Ocimum sanctum) is the most sacred of all.
During the marriage ceremony, the tulasi plant is worshipped, and the bride and bridegroom husk a small quantity of rice.
Before doing so, he wets the leaves of the tulasi plant (Ocimum sanctum) in a rice plate, and places them in a brass vessel containing holy water by his side.
Because of the belief that the Tulasi opens the gates of heaven to the pious worshipper, Prof.
In like fashion the records of the last census have shown worshippers of the poets Kalidasa and Tulasi Das, as in Bombay their great writers Dnyanadeva and Tukaram are deified by the Marathas.
But no well is considered lucky until the Salagrama, or spiral ammonite sacred to Vishnu, is solemnly wedded to the Tulasi or basil plant, representing the garden which the well is intended to water.
But his status is at present decidedly low, and it is remarkable in what a contemptuous way even so orthodox a poet as Tulasi Das speaks of him.
Hardly any event in his mythology, thanks to the genius ofTulasi Das, the great Hindi poet of Hindustan, is more familiar to the Hindu peasant than this.
I will lay myself on the cloth pretending to be dead; and to convince people that I am dead, put a tulasi [27] plant near my head.
As she was returning homewards with the basket in her hand, she passed by the tulasi plant whose bottom she had swept.
The tulasi plant said to her, "Go in peace, child!
She saw the cotton plant, but did nothing to it; she passed by the plantain tree, the shed of the Brahmani bull, and the tulasi plant, without taking any notice of them.
She next saw a tulasi plant, bowed herself down before it, and cleaned the place round about, on which the plant gave her a blessing.
From the time when the eleventh day after new moon falls on a Thursday, to observe a fast, and to worship the tulasi plant for eleven days.
Tulasi was daughter of the Raja Dharmadhwaja, and by her devotions gained the favour of Vishnu, but she married the demon Sankhachuda, who by the virtue of his wife overcame the gods.
He added that those women who married an image of him to the Tulasi on the eleventh day of the month Karttik would prosper.
The Tulasi or holy basil (Ocymum sanctum) is closely connected with the worship of Vishnu.
In the Panjab, rich people who have no children marry a Brahman to a Tulasi plant.
When Tulasi was aware of the deception she was about to curse him, but he pacified her by promising to marry her and make her name immortal.
The clothes of the pair are knotted together, and they are made to walk round a Tulasi plant or a Pipal tree on the banks of the tank, in a mock form of the marriage ritual.
Such are those of the Tulasi or sacred basil, worn by Vaishnavas, and those of the Rudraksha, worn by Saivas.
The leaves of the Tulasior sweet basil and Ganges water are put into the mouth of a dying man, and the former into the ears and nostrils also.
Morning and evening, for the rest of her life, she used to smear the pillar with sacred cowdung, and water the tulasi shrub.
But the Brahmin girl, in memory of her having married a tiger, raised a pillar over the well and planted a tulasi [62] shrub on the top of it.
We have taken the shelter of thy feet, throwing over-board all friends, that we may bear on our heads the Tulasi thrown from Thy feet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tulasi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
