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prasad, prasada Hinduism.|prəˈsɑːd, -ə|
[Skr. prasāda lit. clearness, kindness, grace, Hindi prasād.]
1. A propitiatory offering of food made to a god; food which is offered to an idol and then shared among devotees.
1828H. H. Wilson in Asiatic Researches XVI. 83 A Chamár, oh king, ministers to the Sálagrám, and poisons the town with his Prasád. Ibid. 96 At noon, he halted and bathed the god, and prepared his food, and presented it, and then took the Prasád and put it in a vessel, and fed upon what remained. 1855― Gloss. Judicial & Revenue Terms 424/2 All castes may partake of the Prasád of any image. 1875Monier Williams Indian Wisdom p. xxxvii, It is remarkable that the food offered to the gods, when appropriated and eaten by the priests, and the rice distributed by them to the people, are called prasāda (? = εὐχαριστία). 1913J. N. Farquhar Crown of Hinduism ix. 381 In modern temples, the practice is to give every worshipper a portion of the food and of the water offered to the idol. The food is called prasāda, a grace-gift, and the water tīrtha, holy water. 1953K. W. Morgan Relig. Hindus vii. 296 The food is first offered to the Lord and what is eaten is His praśāda. 1965‘Lauchmonen’ Old Thom's Harvest x. 132 East Indians..shared out prasad, mango..and rice. 1969Weekly Mail (Madras) 26 July 7/5, 90 boys..became unconscious after taking ‘prasad’ at a religious function at Chakasigan village. 1979D. Quinn Fear of God i. 52 The Indian said, ‘Prasada, the remains are food offered to the Lord... The food is Krishna himself. You should eat it all.’
2. Divine grace or favour. Also attrib.
1895E. W. Hopkins Relig. India xv. 429 The prasāda doctrine (of special grace) belongs to a much earlier literature. 1921R. E. Hume Thirteen Princ. Upanishads 59 As regards speculative knowledge of Ātman, its apprehension by means of human knowledge is opposed by the doctrine of prasāda, or ‘Grace’, in Katha 2.20. 1964R. Antoine et al. Relig. Hinduism xxiii. 247 This divine grace: anugraha, prasāda, puṣṭi, kṛpā, is the means which habilitates the bhakta to the obtainment and practice of the bhakti. |