prasada
प्रासाद prasadaIn temple architecture, a name for the temple itself as the 'residence' or palace of the deity; Varahamihira's Brihat Samhita uses it as the standard Sanskrit word for a temple.
Where this term appears
- What is Puja? Worship
Darshana, prasada, the lamp, the bell A few more pieces of the vocabulary, because they are what a visitor actually encounters, and because the heart of the whole practice lives in three of them.
- Why is a coconut broken in Hindu ceremonies? Journal
The worshipper gives something to the deity, the deity receives it, and it returns to the worshipper transformed, no longer ordinary, now carrying grace, as prasada .
- Anatomy of a Hindu Temple: Gopuram to Garbhagriha Temples
He worked in the orbit of Ujjain, and his great compendium, the Brihat Samhita , the Great Compilation, devotes its fifty-sixth chapter to prasada-lakshana , the characteristics of temples.
- What is Ganesh Chaturthi? Worship
The sweets are placed before the image and then shared as prasada , the blessed remains of an offering, which is how a private devotion becomes a neighbourhood event.
- Reading the Tilaka: Forehead Marks Explained Deities
The applying of the tilaka is folded into the daily rites of worship, where a devotee receives it as prasada after seeing the deity, and into the rite of nyasa , the placing of the divine on the body.
- Burning the seed Treatise
The devotional, bhakti , schools teach that the grace of God, kripa or prasada , can override accumulated karma.
- The reversal Treatise
Ordinary worship flows upward and comes back down: the pure offering is raised to the deity and returns to the devotee as prasada , the god's own remnant received as grace.
- The Shankaracharya Tradition In The Modern Period Treatise
The new figure was Sri Kuppa Venkateshwara Prasada Sharma — born on July 24, 1993 (the auspicious Naga Panchami day) in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, into a family of Vedic scholars.