Palasha

Vedic tradition

• Palasha appears in Vedic tradition.

  The Ṛgveda knows palāśa (flame-of-the-forest) among ritual woods and hymn plant speech. A named Vedic tree in that corpus, not Holi orange alone and not a generic spring-bloom dump.

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

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• Palasha is used in Offerings.

  Vedic sacrificial practice licensed by Ṛgveda fire-rite speech uses palāśa among ritual woods for the offering fire. A named plant→offerings use, not KF incense and not palasha→vedic appears_in alone.

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

  used in · sourced · documented