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Lakshmi Narayana Tulsi Vivah Mantra: the Tulsi plant dressed as a bride beside a black Shaligrama stone in a small mandap, a family offering a lamp
A family honours the Tulsi plant, dressed as a bride, beside the Shaligrama in a wedding mandap
Mantra · The basil's wedding verse, her eight names and two salutations

Tulsi Vivah Mantra

महाप्रसाद जननी सर्व सौभाग्यवर्धिनी । आधि व्याधि हरा नित्यं तुलसी त्वं नमोस्तुते ॥

Also known as Mahaprasada Janani

In Devanagari, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and English — with the meaning of every word, and the one syllable most people pronounce wrongly.

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What the Tulsi Vivah Mantra is

The Tulsi Vivah mantra is the verse Mahaprasada Janani, said to Tulasi at Tulsi Vivah, the wedding of the holy basil to Vishnu in the form of the Shaligrama stone; this page prints it with four other Sanskrit verses the rite draws on. Mantra 1 greets Tulasi as the mother of great grace who makes good fortune grow and removes troubles of mind and body. It rests on the puja manuals, which give it no scriptural home. Mantra 2 is the Tulasi Namashtaka, her eight names in one couplet, from the Devi Bhagavata Purana (9.25.32), with a parallel couplet in the Prakriti Khanda of the Brahmavaivarta Purana. The phala shruti is the next verse of the same chapter. Prarthana 1 comes from the Kartika Mahatmya of the Padma Purana (Uttara Khanda 93.29) and asks Tulasi, brought forth by the gods, to take away sin. Prarthana 2, a traditional verse, places the holy places at her root, the gods in her middle and the Vedas at her tip.

Vrinda, Jalandhara and the stone bridegroom

The Shiva Purana, with parallel tellings in the Padma and Skanda Puranas, gives the story behind the wedding. Jalandhara was born when the fire of Shiva's third eye was cast into the ocean, and he grew into an emperor of the asuras. His wife Vrinda, daughter of Kalanemi, was so faithful that her virtue kept him unconquerable. Jalandhara made war on the gods and, taking Shiva's form, tried to deceive Parvati. Vishnu answered in kind: he came to Vrinda in her husband's form, and her protection failed. When she saw through the disguise she cursed Vishnu to suffer separation from his own wife, a curse tradition sees fulfilled when Ravana carries Sita away, and she gave herself to the fire. Shiva then slew Jalandhara. The Skanda telling adds that Vishnu grieved at her pyre until the goddess Prakriti gave the gods seeds that grew into Dhatri, Malati and Tulasi. According to popular tradition Vrinda was reborn as the tulasi plant, and Vishnu, as the Shaligrama, weds her on Prabodhini Ekadashi to keep his promise. The Devi Bhagavata tells a different life for her, as Tulasi, daughter of King Dharmadhvaja and wife of Shankhachuda, whose body Vishnu turns into the Gandaki river and whose hair becomes the plant.

The mantra, in six scripts

DevanagariSanskrit & Hindiमहाप्रसाद जननी सर्व सौभाग्यवर्धिनी । आधि व्याधि हरा नित्यं तुलसी त्वं नमोस्तुते ॥
Tamilமஹாப்ரஸாத ஜநநீ ஸர்வ ஸௌபாக்யவர்திநீ । ஆதி வ்யாதி ஹரா நித்யம் துலஸீ த்வம் நமோஸ்துதே ॥
Teluguమహాప్రసాద జననీ సర్వ సౌభాగ్యవర్ధినీ । ఆధి వ్యాధి హరా నిత్యం తులసీ త్వం నమోస్తుతే ॥
Kannadaಮಹಾಪ್ರಸಾದ ಜನನೀ ಸರ್ವ ಸೌಭಾಗ್ಯವರ್ಧಿನೀ । ಆಧಿ ವ್ಯಾಧಿ ಹರಾ ನಿತ್ಯಂ ತುಲಸೀ ತ್ವಂ ನಮೋಸ್ತುತೇ ॥
Malayalamമഹാപ്രസാദ ജനനീ സര്വ സൌഭാഗ്യവര്ധിനീ । ആധി വ്യാധി ഹരാ നിത്യം തുലസീ ത്വം നമോസ്തുതേ ॥
EnglishRoman transliterationmahāprasāda jananī sarva saubhāgyavardhinī | ādhi vyādhi harā nityaṃ tulasī tvaṃ namostute ||
“Mother who brings great grace, you make every good fortune grow and always take away troubles of the mind and illnesses of the body: Tulasi, salutations to you. (Printed as the Tulsi Vivah mantra; traditional, no single source)”
महाप्रसाद
mahāprasāda — great grace
जननी
jananī — mother, giver
सर्व
sarva — all, every
सौभाग्यवर्धिनी
saubhāgyavardhinī — who makes good fortune grow
आधि
ādhi — troubles of the mind
व्याधि
vyādhi — illnesses of the body
हरा
harā — removing
नित्यं
nityaṃ — always
तुलसी
tulasī — Tulasi
त्वं
tvaṃ — you
नमोस्तुते
namostute — salutations to you

Tulsi Vivah Mantra lyrics in full

Five verses: the Vivah mantra, the eight names of Tulasi with their phala shruti, and two salutations to her.

All 5 verses, in Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and English, each with its meaning. Choose a script:

Download the Tulsi Vivah Mantra PDFAll 5 verses with their meanings, in Sanskrit. Free to print and keep.

Mantra 1

महाप्रसाद जननी सर्व सौभाग्यवर्धिनी ।
आधि व्याधि हरा नित्यं तुलसी त्वं नमोस्तुते ॥

Mother who brings great grace, you make every good fortune grow and always take away troubles of the mind and illnesses of the body: Tulasi, salutations to you. (Printed as the Tulsi Vivah mantra; traditional, no single source)

Mantra 2

वृन्दा वृन्दावनी विश्वपूजिता विश्वपावनी ।
पुष्पसारा नन्दिनी च तुलसी कृष्णजीवनी ॥

Vrinda, Vrindavani, Vishvapujita, Vishvapavani, Pushpasara, Nandini, Tulasi and Krishnajivani: these are the eight names of Tulasi, the Tulasi Namashtaka. They name her the gathering of plants, the one who first appeared in the Vrindavana forest, worshipped in all worlds, purifier of all worlds, essence of flowers, giver of joy, the one without equal, and the life of Krishna. (Devi Bhagavata Purana 9.25.32; Brahmavaivarta Purana, Prakriti Khanda 22.32)

Phala Shruti 1

एतन्नामाष्टकञ्चैव स्तोत्रं नामार्थसंयुतम् ।
यः पठेत्तां च संपूज्य सोऽश्वमेधफलं लभेत् ॥

The verse says that whoever worships Tulasi and recites this hymn of eight names, with the meaning of each name, gains the merit of an Ashvamedha sacrifice. (Devi Bhagavata Purana 9.25.33; Brahmavaivarta Purana, Prakriti Khanda 22.33)

Prarthana 1

देवैस्त्वं निर्मिता पूर्वमर्चितासि मुनीश्वरैः ।
नमो नमस्ते तुलसि पापं हर हरिप्रिये ॥

Long ago you were brought forth by the gods and worshipped by the great sages. Salutations again and again to you, Tulasi, beloved of Hari: take away my sin. (Padma Purana, Uttara Khanda 93.29, Kartika Mahatmya, said after circling and bowing to Tulasi)

Prarthana 2

यन्मूले सर्वतीर्थानि यन्मध्ये सर्वदेवताः ।
यदग्रे सर्ववेदाश्च तुलसि त्वां नमाम्यहम् ॥

All the holy places are at your root, all the gods in your middle and all the Vedas at your tip: Tulasi, I bow to you. (Traditional prayer, no single source)

The syllable people get wrong

In Mantra 1, आधि (ādhi, 'trouble of the mind') has an aspirated dh: AA-dhee, with a breath after the d. Said as ādi it becomes 'beginning', and the pair ādhi vyādhi, sorrows of the mind and illnesses of the body, loses its sense.

When the Tulsi Vivah Mantra is chanted

Weekday. Friday

Festival. Tulsi Vivah, Kartika Shukla Ekadashi (Prabodhini) or Dwadashi

Questions

The Shaligrama is a black fossil stone from the bed of the Gandaki river, worshipped as Vishnu himself without any carving. In the Devi Bhagavata account Vishnu tells Tulasi that her body will become the Gandaki and her hair the tulasi plant, so the stone of her river and the plant of her hair belong together. Where no Shaligrama is kept, a brass image or picture of Vishnu or Krishna stands in as the bridegroom.
The Devi Bhagavata explains each name in the verses just before the couplet. She is Vrinda because tulasi plants grow in clusters, Vrindavani because she first appeared in the Vrindavana forest, Vishvapujita because countless worlds worship her and Vishvapavani because her touch purifies them. Pushpasara, essence of flowers, means the gods are not pleased by any flower without her. Nandini means the world rejoices in her, Tulasi that nothing compares with her, and Krishnajivani that she is the life of Krishna.
Both, depending on the region. It is most often held on Prabodhini Ekadashi, the bright eleventh of Kartika, when Vishnu is said to wake from his four months of sleep. In Andhra Pradesh and Telangana the wedding falls on the next day, Kartika Shukla Dwadashi, there called Ksheerabdhi Dwadashi. Some places keep the celebration on any day up to Kartika Purnima, and one Bihar village festival runs it for three days.
No Purana has been found for it. It is the verse the puja manuals print as the Tulsi Vivah mantra, word for word in several of them, but none names a source. A collection of Tulasi prayers carries a related verse beginning manah prasada janani with different wording. Prarthana 1 is the opposite case: it is in the Padma Purana, which reads devais tvam, by the gods, where popular printings often have devi tvam.
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