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| [[File:Tulsi jai.jpg|thumb|Tulasi Vrindavan or Chaura in rural house.]] | |
| '''Tulasi Chaura''' or '''Tulasi Vrindavan''' ({{Lang-or|ତୁଳସୀ ଚଉରା}}) is a small podium-like stone or cement construction in front of traditional [[Hinduism|Hindu]] houses containing [[Ocimum tenuiflorum|Tulasi]] in many regions of [[India]] including [[Odisha]]
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| ==Significance in Hinduism==
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| {{Main|Tulsi in Hinduism}}
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| '''[[Ocimum tenuiflorum|Tulasī]]''' or '''Holy Basil''' is an aromatic plant in the family [[Lamiaceae]] which is native throughout the Old World tropics and widespread as a cultivated plant and an escaped weed.<ref>{{cite book|last=Staples|first=George|author2=Michael S. Kristiansen |title=Ethnic Culinary Herbs|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|year=1999|isbn=978-0-8248-2094-7|page=73}}</ref> and considered as a holy plant by the [[Hindu]]s and is worshiped as Brunda debi (Vrunda [[devi]]) or Brundabati. Every morning after bath the [[Odia people]] worship the plant by pouring water and take few leaves as [[prasada]]. Tulasi is a sacred plant for Hindus. Water mixed with tulsi petals is given to the dying to raise their departing souls to heaven.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindunet.org/faq/fom-serv/cache/19.html|title=Why do we consider Tulsi sacred?|publisher=Hindunet.org|access-date=2015-04-16|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041111082045/http://www.hindunet.org/faq/fom-serv/cache/19.html|archive-date=2004-11-11}}</ref>
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| In [[Pana Sankranti]] a tiny hole is made in a small earthen pot filled with Pana and hung in a stick so that the drops of Pana fall on the roots of Tulasi which signifies the beginning of [[Ashadha|Asadha]] in [[rainy season]]. [[Chatua]], [[jaggery|Guda (jaggery)]] and [[yogurt]] are served as prasada in the Tulasi chaura on that day.<ref>{{cite web|last=Rajendran |first=Abhilash |url=http://www.hindu-blog.com/2009/04/maha-vishuba-sankranti-orissa-new-year.html |title=Maha Vishuba Sankranti – Orissa New Year ~ Hindu Blog |publisher=Hindu-blog.com |date=2007-06-06 |access-date=2015-04-16}}</ref>
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| File:തുളസി-തറ.JPG|Tulsi Vrindavan in [[Kerala]]
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| File:Tulasi kota..jpg|Tulsi Vrindavan in a Telugu household
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| File:Thulasitthara.jpg|Tulsi Vrindavan in [[Kerala]]
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| File:Tulsi Mancha at Radhamadhab Temple Arnab Dutta 2011.JPG|Tulsi Mancha at Radhamadhab Temple in [[West Bengal]]
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| File:Tulsi jai.jpg|Tulasi Vrindavan in a rural house.
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| File:Aji 1976.jpg|A woman from [[Maharashtra]] watering Tulsi in 1970s
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| ==References==
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| {{Commons cat|Tulasi chaura}}
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| [[Category:Odia culture]]
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| [[Category:Objects used in Hindu worship]]
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| [[Category:Archaeological features]]
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