Swabbing floor of the rooms and courtyards using mud and cow dung is common in Manipur state of North Eastern India. But this practice is no longer prevalent in houses with concrete floors.
It is a custom to swab the area around the tulsi plant in a circluar manner daily (sometimes even twice or thrice a day).
Swabbing floor of the rooms and courtyards using mud and cow dung is common in Manipur state of North Eastern India. But this practice is no longer prevalent in houses with concrete floors.
Manipuris have a specific way of building houses. A typical Manipuri (Meitei) house has a verendah called 'mangol' where the right side is reserved for the oldest member of the family or clan. No women even of the family except the oldest female member is allowed to sit there. Then, climbing down the 'dhhari' the edge of the 'mangol' there's the courtyard called shumang in Manipuri. Right in the middle of the shumang is a tulsi plant. These days, concrete courtyards have a well cemented and smoothened circular area around the tulsi plant. Daily worships of Bina Devi( tulsi) and the sun God are done in the western part of this circular area.
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