In Maharashtra, an important ritual in the ceremony is when the white cloth is held between the bride and the groom and the saint recites the Mangal Ashtaka mantras. Devotees including saints and mahants all over from Bihar visit this place to celebrate this festive occasion. All caste takes participation in this village accordingly. The villagers prepare 56 types of prasad known as Chapan Bhog and distributed to all. The second day is celebrated as Sobha Yatra which is of significant importance in which the special prasad is Pongal, and the third day is celebrated as Tilakotsav and Vivahotsav of Lord Vishnu and Devi Brinda. The festival is started with the vedic chanting of Ramcharitmanas or Ramayana by the villagers itself. Here it is celebrated as three day festival in the Hindi month of Kartik from Ekadashi to Trayodashi.
Tulsi plant worshipped as part of Tulsi Vivah celebrations.Īt Prabhu Dham in Saunja, India, the festival is collectively celebrated by whole village which makes it a significant point of attraction. The couple is linked with a cotton thread (mala) in the ceremony. Both Vishnu and Tulsi are bathed and decorated with flowers and garlands before the wedding. The groom is a brass image or picture of Vishnu or Krishna or sometimes Balarama or more frequently the Shaligram stone - the symbol of Vishnu. A human paper face with a bindi and nose-ring may be attached to Tulsi. The bride Tulsi is clothed with a sari and ornaments including earrings and necklaces. It is believed that the soul of Vrinda resides in the plant at night and leaves in the morning. A mandap (marriage booth) is built around the courtyard of the house where the Tulsi plant is usually planted in centre of the courtyard in a brick plaster called the Tulsi vrindavana. The marriage ceremony is conducted at homes and at temples where a fast is observed on the Tulsi Vivah day until evening when the ceremony begins. The marriage of Tulsi with Vishnu/Krishna resembles the traditional Hindu wedding. Vishnu shed happy tears, the first of which fell in Amrita and formed Tulsi. Vishnu procured it for the gods, when the demons tried to steal it. At the end of the churning, Dhanvantari rose from the ocean with Amrita (the elixir of immortality). Ī Vaishnava legend relates Tulsi to the Samudra Manthana, the churning of the cosmic ocean by the gods and asuras (demons). Īnother minor legend narrates that Lakshmi slew a demon on this day and remained on earth as the Tulsi plant. To commemorate this event, the ceremony of Tulsi Vivah is performed. Īs per a blessing by Vishnu to marry Vrinda in her next birth, Vishnu – in form of Shaligram - married Tulsi on Prabodhini Ekadashi. Vrinda then drowned herself in the ocean, and the gods (or Vishnu himself) transferred her soul to a plant, which was henceforth called Tulsi. This was later fulfilled when he was transformed into the black Shaligram stone (actually a fossil), and in his Rama avatar, was separated from his wife Sita, who was kidnapped by the asura king Ravana.
Vrinda cursed Lord Vishnu to become Shaligram and to be separated from his wife, Lakshmi. Seeing this she realized it was not her husband but Lord Vishnu. With her Sankalpa destroyed, Jalandhar lost his power and was killed by Shiva and his head fell in Vrinda's palace. When leaving for war Vrinda promised Jalandhar for doing Sankalpa for his victory till he returns but Lord Vishnu disguised himself as Jalandhar and she saw him, she left her Sankalpa and touched his feet. Even the Devtas could not defeat Jalandhar, so they requested Vishnu - the preserver in the Trinity - to find a solution. She was married to the Asura king Jalandhar, who due to her piety and devotion to Vishnu, became invincible. Īccording to Hindu scripture, the Tulsi plant was a woman named “Vrinda” (Brinda a synonym of Tulsi). The legend behind Tulsi Vivah and its rites are told in the scripture, Padma Purana. Tulsi is venerated as a goddess in Hinduism and is sometimes considered as a wife of Vishnu, with the epithet, “Vishnupriya”, “the beloved of Vishnu”.
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