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Tulasī Prayer (yāni kāni ca pāpāni)

TULASĪ PRAYER
yāni kāni ca pāpāni brahma-hatyādikāni ca
tāni tāni praṇaśyanti pradakṣiṇaḥ pade pade
yāni kāni—whatever; ca—and; pāpāni—sins; brahma-hatya—killing of a brāhmaṇa; ādikāni—and so on; ca—also; tāni tāni—all of them; praṇaśyanti—are destroyed; pradakṣiṇaḥ—circumambulating; pade pade—step by step.
"Those who circumambulate Śrīmatī Tulasī-devī step by step destroy whatever sins they have committed, even the killing of a brāhmaṇa."
Prabhupāda Says