Garga Samhita
Canto Two : Chapter Sixteen
Tulasi-pujana
The Worship of Tulasi
The Worship of Tulasi
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etadrisham shri-tulasi- Taking Tulasi, beautiful with many green leaves, to the middle of a ketaki forest, and placing her in a Tulasi-temple that was round, tall, a hundred hastas in size, beautiful with walls of gold and rubies, splendid with an outer wall of emeralds, diamonds, and pearls, decorated with cintamani gems, arched gateways, gold flags, and gold awnings everywhere, and glorious like Indra's palace, at the time of the star abhijit, saintly Radha, following Garga Muni's instructions, served Shri Tulasi. |
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- ↑ ketaki -of ketaki trees; vana -the forest; madhye -in the middle; ca - -and; shata-hastam -a hundred hastas; su-vartulam -round; uccaih -high; hema -gold; khacit -studded; bhitti -wall; padmaraga -rubies; taöam -sides; shubham -beautiful; harit -of emeralds; hiraka -diamonds; muktanam -and pearls; prakarena -with an outer wall; mahollasat -very splendid; sarvatah -everywhere; tolika-yuktam -with gates; cintamani -with cintamani gams; su-manditam -nicely decorated; hema-dhvaja-samayuktam -with gold flags; uttorana-virajitam -splendid with archways; haimaih -with gold; vitanaih -awnings; paritah -everywhere; vaijayantam -Indra's palace; iva -like; sphurat -manifest; etadrisham -like that; shri-tulasi -of Shri Tulasi; mandiram -the temple; su-manoharam -beautiful; tan-madhye -inh the middle; tulasim -Tulasi; sthapya -placing; harit -green; pallava -leaves; shobhitam -beautiful; abhijin-nama-nakshatre -the star named abhijit; tat-sevam -the service of her; sa -She; cakara -did; ha -indeed; samahutena -called; gargena -by Garga Muni; dishöena -instructed; vidhina -by the rules; sati -the saintly girl.
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