The Greatness of Dhatri and Tulasi

1-15. O best king, from the seeds that were thrown (i.e. sown) there, three plants came up: Dhatri, Malati and Tulasi. Dhatri is said to have come up from Dhatri (the earth), Malati from Lakshmi, and Tulasi from Gauri (having) the qualities (constituents viz.) sattva (goodness), rajas (activity) and tamas (darkness, ignorance). O king, Vishnu, deluded by the excellence of Vrnda's beauty, seeing the herbs in the form of women got up in confusion. Then, with his mind attached to (i.e. full of) passion, he saw them. Tulasi and Dhatri also looked at him with love only. Since formerly Lakshmi gave the seed deceptively, therefore, the woman who came up from it, became jealous of him. Therefore, she is called Barbarl (i.e. low), and is very much condemned by Vishnu. Due to his love for them Dhatri and Tulasi have always delighted him. Then Vishnu, forgetting his grief, went to Vaikuntha with them. He was delighted and was saluted by all gods. Therefore, Vishnu's worship is ordained at the time of the conclusion of the Kartika (vow), since it is said always to cause delight (when done) at the root of Tulasi. O king, the house of him in whose house stands a Tulasi-grove, is of the nature of a holy place. Yama's servants do not come (there). Those best men who plant a Tulasi-grove which destroys all sins, which is auspicious, which satisfies desires, never see (Yama) the Sun's son. The three, viz. seeing (i.e. visiting) Narmada, bathing in Ganga, and contact with Tulasi-grove, are said to be equivalent. Due to men's planting, protecting, sprinkling, seeing and touching Tulasi, Tulasi removes their sin committed through speech, mind and body. He who would worship Vishnu with Tulasi-blossoms, does not go to the abode of embryo (i.e. is not reborn), and gets salvation. There is no doubt about this. In the Tulasi-leaf live holy places like Puskara, so also rivers like Ganga and gods like Vishnu. O best king, if a man dies with a Tulasi-leaf (on his person), he obtains absorption with Vishnu. This is the truth (and the only) truth.

16-29. Even Yama cannot look at him, even though he is full of hundreds of sins, who dies with Tulasl-clay smeared (on his body). He who would put on the sandal from Tulasl-wood, great sin, though committed by him, does not touch his body. O king, a man should offer sraddha wherever there would be the shade of a Tulasi-grove. (Sraddha) offered there becomes inexhaustible for the manes of the dead ancestors. The dead ancestors in hell, of him who offers pindas under the shade of a Tulasi-plant, are gratified, O best king. He who keeps the Dhatrl-fruit on his head, in his hand, in his mouth, on his body, should be known to be Vishnu himself, O best king. He on whose body the Dhatri-fruit or clay (from the root) of Tulasi from Dvaraka always remains, is called 'liberated while alive.' The fruit for that man who bathes with water mixed with Dhatrlfruits or with Tulasl-leaves, is said to be like that of a bath in Ganga. The man who would worship the deities with Dhatrlleaves or Dhatri-fruits, would obtain the fruit of worshipping them with various flowers (made) of gold. In Kartika when the Sun has resorted to the Libra sign of the Zodiac, holy places, sages, deities, sacrifices always remain resorted to the Dhatri. One who plucks a Tulasi-leaf on the twelfth day, and a Dhatrifruit in Kartika, would go to very condemned hells. The sin due to contact with (prohibited) food, of the man who eats under the shade of a Dhatri plant in Kartika, perishes for the (whole) year. One who worships Vishnu (while sitting) at the root of a Dhatri plant in Kartika, has always worshipped at all places sacred to Vishnu. Even the god (Brahma) having four mouths would not be able to narrate the greatness of Dhatri and Tulasi as of god Vishnu. One who devoutly listens to or causes (others) to listen to the cause of the origin of Dhatri and Tulasi, has his sins shaken off, and he, seated in an excellent aeroplane with his ancestors, goes to heaven.

1-2. O brahmana, you told me properly the greatness of Tulasi along with its history. I havelistened to this great, very wonderful (account). Tell (me) what great fruit a man gets, who observes the Kartika vow; (tell) its greatness again. (Tell) also who observed it? and in what manner (did he observe it)? Narada said:

3-10. Formerly in the region of Sahyadri in the city of Karavira there lived a brahmana known as Dharmadatta, a knower of Dharma. He always observed Vishnu's vow and was always engaged in worshipping Vishnu. He was fond of muttering the hymn of the twelve syllables and guests were dear to him. Once in the month of Kartika he went to Vishnu's temple for keeping awake (in honour) of Vishnu, when the fourth part of the night had remained. When he was taking the materials for Vishnu's worship, he saw a demoness of a terrible voice, that had come there. Her fangs and face were crooked; her tongue had gone down; her eyes were red; she was naked; the flesh (in her body) was dry (i.e. she was emaciated); her lips were long (i.e. protruding); her voice was purring. Seeing her, he, afflicted with fear and with limbs trembling, quickly struck her with the materials of worship and water. She was (thus) struck (by him) after remembering Vishnu's name and with Tulasi-water. Therefore, all her sin perished. Then she, remembering her former existence due to the maturity of her acts, told him her entire condition, after saluting him (by prostrating before him) like a staff. Kalaha said:

11. I have been reduced to this condition as a result of my deeds in the former (existence). O brahmana, how shall I again attain excellent and auspicious condition? Narada said:

12. Seeing her bowing down before (him) and narrating those acts of her, the brahmana, extremely amazed, then said (these) words: Dharmadatta said:

13. As a result of which act are you reduced to such a condition? Wherefrom (do you come)? Who are you? What is your disposition? Tell all that to me. Kalaha said:

14-18a. O brahmana, in a city in Saurastra there was a brahmana named Bhiksu. I was first his very cruel wife named Kalaha. I never did good to him even bywords; I who broke his command and who always liked to quarrel, never gave sweet food to my husband. Then the brahmana was dejected through grief; that my husband thought of marrying another woman. Then, O brahmana, taking poison, I cast off my life. Then Yama's followers bound me and took me away. And Yama seeing me then, asked Chitragupta. Yama said:

18b-19. O Chitragupta, see what act she has done. Let her obtain good or bad fruit of her act. Then Chitragupta, censuring her, said (these) words: Chitragupta said:

20-25. She has not done any good act at all. She (herself) ate savoury food, (but) did not give it to her husband. Therefore, let her be (born) in her own feces in the stock of a cockroach. Then, O Hari, she, who hated her husband and always quarrelled, will be (born) in the stock of a female pig eating feces. Since she always ate from the pot in which the food is cooked, (let her be born) among female-cats eating her own young ones. Since she killed herself with reference to her husband, therefore, let this extremely censured one live among ghosts and goblins. Then with the demons she should be taken to the Maru country. Let her, having a ghosts' body, stay there for a long time. Thus having undergone (i.e. passed through) three stocks (i.e. existences) (she will be) doing auspicious acts. Kalaha said:

26-31. That I (i.e. like that I) remained for five hundred years in a ghost's body. Everyday I was oppressed by hunger and thirst and was afflicted due to my own act(s). Then I, oppressed by hunger everyday, (resorted to) a merchant's body and came to the confluence of Krishna and Veni in the southern country. When I resorted to that bank, I was forcibly thrown away from that body(?) by the attendants of Shiva and Vishnu. Then, O brahmana, I who was emaciated with hunger, who was wandering, and whose sin had gone away due to the contact of the Tulasiwater thrown (by you), saw you. Therefore, O best brahmana, have pity on me. How shall I be free from the three very fearful existences, and from this ghost's body? Hearing like this the words of Kalaha, the brahmana, full of affliction and amazement due to the maturity of her acts, and with his mind restless due to having seen her misery thought for a long time, and sorrowfully spoke (these) words:

1-5. By means of (visits to) holy places, gifts and vows etc. sins perish. But you, remaining in an imp's body are not entitled to them. My mind dejected at seeing this misery of you will not be pleased without emancipating you who are unhappy. Your sin, giving you the three existences as a result of its maturity, is very grave. It cannot be exhausted by other meritorious acts. The state of an imp is very censurable. Therefore, obtain a good condition by means of half the merit of the Kartika vow observed by me from my birth. Sacrifices, gifts, (visits to) holy places and vows certainly do not at all have the equivalence to the merit due to the Kartika vow. Narada said:

6-8. Speaking like this, when Dharmadatta sprinkled her with water mixed with Tulasi, repeating the twelve-syllabled (hymn), (just) then she was free from imphood, resembled the flame of a blazing fire, had a divine form, and brightened up the directions with her beauty. Then she saluted the brahmana (by prostrating herself) like a staff on the ground, and in a voice stammering with joy, said (these) words: Kalaha said:

9. O you best brahmana, due to your favour I have been free from hell. Certainly you have been (the emancipator) of me who was drowning in the ocean of sin. Narada said:

10-13. She who was talking like this to the brahmana saw a bright aeroplane with attendants having Vishnu's form coming from the sky. Then two righteous door-keepers of good conduct put her into that excellent aeroplane attended upon by a band of celestial nymphs. Dharmadatta saw that aeroplane and was amazed. Seeing the two meritorious ones he fell on the ground like a staff. The two righteous ones of good conduct, raised the brahmana who had bowed down, and praising him spoke (these) words: The two attendants said:

14-26. It's good, O best brahmana, that you are always devoted to Vishnu, you are kind to the helpless, you know Dharma and are very much engrossed in Vishnu's vow. From your birth you observed this Kartika vow. By giving half of (the religious merit due to) it her sins collected formerly in hundreds of existences, have perished. Due to your keeping awake in honour of Vishnu etc. this aeroplane has come; so also (have come) the residence in Vaikuntha, proximity of Vishnu, and absorption into. him. Those who have devoutly propitiated Vishnu as you have done, O Dharmadatta, are lucky and contented. Their existence is fruitful. What will Vishnu who formerly put Uttana's son (Dhruva) at a fixed place, and by merely remembering whose name human beings get good position, not give to human beings, when he is properly propitiated? Formerly the lordly elephant seized by a crocodile became free by (merely) remembering his name, obtained his proximity and became one called 'Jaya' (i.e. came to be called Jaya). Therefore, Vishnu worshipped by you will give you with your two wives his proximity for many thousand years. Then, after your religious merit is exhausted, when you will go to the earth, you will be a famous king born in the solar dynasty named Dasaratha with your two wives and with this one as the third (wife) sharing half of your religious merit. There on the earth also Vishnu doing the work of the gods, will give you his proximity after having made himself (i.e. born as) your son. For you sacrifices, gifts, visits to holy places are not superior to this your vow (taken) from your birth and pleasing Vishnu. O brahmana, you are lucky that you have observed this vow pleasing the lord of the world, due to the fruit of the half portion of which this one is being taken by us to the same world as of Vishnu.

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