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| [[File:Tulsi jai.jpg|thumb|Tulasi Vrindavan or Chaura in rural house]]
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| '''Tulasi Chaura,''' '''Tulasi Vrindavan''' ({{Lang-or|ତୁଳସୀ ଚଉରା}}), '''Tulasi Brundavanam''' ([[Telugu language|Telugu]]: తులసి బృందావనం) or '''Tulasi Thara''' ([[Malayalam]]: തുളസിത്തറ) is a small podium-like stone or cement construction in front of traditional [[Hinduism|Hindu]] houses, housing the sacred [[Ocimum tenuiflorum|Tulasi]] plant.
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| ==Significance 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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| === Tulsi Vivah ===
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| A ceremony known as [[Tulsi Vivah]] is performed by the Hindus between [[Prabodhini Ekadashi]] (eleventh lunar day of the waxing moon of [[Kartika (month)|Kartika]]) to [[Kartik Poornima]] (full moon in Kartika), usually on the eleventh or the twelfth lunar day. It is the ceremonial wedding of the Tulsi plant to Vishnu, in the form of his image, Shaligram or a Krishna or Rama image. Both the bride and the groom are ritually worshipped and then married as per traditional [[Hindu wedding]] rituals. It marks the end of the four-month ''[[Chaturmas]]'' period, which corresponds to the monsoon and is considered inauspicious for weddings and other rituals, so the day inaugurates the annual marriage season in [[India]].<ref name="Flood2003">{{Cite book|last=Flood|first=Gavin D.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qSfneQ0YYY8C&pg=PA331|title=The Blackwell companion to Hinduism|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|year=2001|isbn=978-0-631-21535-6|page=331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2000-10-18|title=Tulsi Vivah|url=https://www.sanatan.org/en/a/113_tulsi-vivah.html|access-date=2021-06-30|website=Sanatan Sanstha|language=en-US}}</ref>
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| ==Gallery==
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| File:തുളസി-തറ.JPG|Tulsi Vrindavan in [[Kerala]]; known as a ''tulasittara'' in Malayalam.
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| File:Tulasi kota..jpg|Tulasi Brundavanam or Tulasi Kota 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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