Guest guest Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 SrI SrI Guru Gaurangau Jayatah Camp: Radha GopalaKrsna temple, Kanoo gardens, Manama Bahrain DaNDavats Dear Murari caitanya dasa. Jaya Krishna BalarAma! Thank you for your letter. I also doubt this. "vana tulasi". > My name is Murari Caitanya. I live at New Govardhana Farm Community, > Australia, and I am the carer for Tulasi Devi. > > Just recently, someone gave a donation of a Tulasi plant. However, it is a > Vana Tulasi (Ocimum gratissimum). I read on the internet that this is one > of the three accepted varieties of Tulasi, but I can find no reference to > it in Srila Prabhupada's writings. > Can you please advise me if this variety is acceptable for worship and in > the temple? I've never heard of ocimum gratissimum. could it be the ordinary basil plant that has large thick leathery leaves, edges a little on the sharp side, big "flowers (manjari looking yet 2 times as high, and 2 times as thick" flowers? if so, then it is only basil which is not Krsna priya, but Italiano priya, good for tomatoes sauce and pizza-pasta. comments, tulasi pujaris? TridaNDi BhikSu, Bhakti Visrambha MAdhava Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 05:13 -0400, BVMS <BVMS (AT) pamho (DOT) net> wrote: > > I also doubt this. "vana tulasi". > > I've never heard of ocimum gratissimum. could it be the ordinary basil > plant > that has large thick leathery leaves, edges a little on the sharp side, > big > "flowers (manjari looking yet 2 times as high, and 2 times as thick" > flowers? > > if so, then it is only basil which is not Krsna priya, but Italiano priya, > good for tomatoes sauce and pizza-pasta. > > comments, tulasi pujaris? Pizza-priya is ocimum basilicum. Srila Prabhupada has told us only about Rama Tulasi and Krishna Tulasi. Vana Tulasi is also known as ocimum gratissimum, but I've seen it also under ocimum tenuiflorum, which is a name used more recently by some botanists for ocimum sanctum. It's something of a puzzle for me, and one which I'd like to have the time and resources to sort out, since I'm the original Tulasi guy. It seems that at least some in Indian culture accept Vana Tulasi as sacred. Govinda dasi has something she calls camphor Tulasi, which I haven't heard about anywhere else. Anyone else? Yours in service, Babhru das Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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