Kusha

Vedic tradition

• Kusha appears in Vedic tradition.

  The Ṛgveda seats kuśa/darbha sacred grass in seating, purification, and rite furniture. A named Vedic grass in that corpus, not durva as Cynodon offering grass and not North American sweetgrass.

  from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older

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• Kusha is used in Offerings.

  In Vedic rite licensed by Ṛgveda sacrificial speech, kuśa grass serves purification and offering furniture — strewn and handled in the gift to the fire. A named ritual use, not KF incense churn and not kusha→vedic appears_in alone.

  from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older

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• Kusha is used in Yajna.

  Kuśa/darbha is the seating and purifying grass of yajña — the rite’s own plant furniture in Vedic sacrificial practice the Ṛgveda hymns. A named instrument→rite use, not kusha→offerings alone and not durva.

  from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older

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