Kuśa grass
object · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
kusa grass · kuśa grass · sacred grass · the kuśa grass
in the texts
Rigveda
The kusa grass strewn as ritual seating in the sacrifice.
The kusa grass is strewn — come forward, O mighty one;
As a bird sings a heavenly sāman, let us praise that which has grown great, possessed of the sun — when the undeceived milch-cows come to the kusa grass, worshipping the heavenly seat.
Urge forward now Jātavedas, the steed, the swift one — to take his seat upon this our sacred kuśa grass.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Sacred grass spread by Bharata as the seat of his prostration vow before Rāma.
Sorrowful, seeing Sumatra looking toward Rāma, he had the kuśa grass spread and himself laid it out on the ground.
"Spread kuśa grass for me quickly on this bare ground, charioteer — I shall lie down here facing my elder brother until he relents toward me.