Though I didn’t know at that time, it was tulsi vivaah that day and the atmosphere was quite festive. On my very first evening in Goa, I lost count of the the number of tulsi vrindavans I came across I walked from the service apartment I was staying in at Colva to the Colva beach for dinner. As it happened I saw quite a lot of them ! A tulsi vrindavan outside a Hindu home in a hamlet located in the Bhagwan Mahaveer Wildlife Sanctuary, Goa As a result, it’s rare to see tulsi vrindavans in cities like Mumbai in smaller towns and rural India, however its a different story and I’ve seen them in my various travels in India. The tulsi, one of India’s sacred plants with rich mythological and religious associations, is usually planted near the entrance to the house in specially made planters known as tulsi vrindavans.Ĭities, highrises and tulsi vrindavans have an uneasy relationship and cannot really coexist well together. As per Hindu tradition, a house without a tulsi or sacred basil plant is considered to be incomplete.
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