prasadn.

1714 tr. F. Bouchet Let. in Trav. Several Learned Missioners i. 22 The Remains of the Sacrifices..retain, among the Indians, the Name of Prajadam.

1810 Asiatick Researches 11 538 In return for the oblations, each person receives what is called a Presád, which consists of a little boiled rice.

1855 H. H. Wilson Gloss. Judicial & Revenue Terms India 424/2 All castes may partake of the Prasád of any image.

1913 J. 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.

1953 K. W. Morgan Relig. Hindus vii. 296 The food is first offered to the Lord and what is eaten is His praśāda.

1969 Weekly Mail (Madras) 26 July 7/5 90 boys..became unconscious after taking ‘prasad’ at a religious function at Chakasigan village.

2002 Sunday Times of India 22 Sept. 9/4 A large number of people have found a path to spiritual salvation through the intake of prasadam (vegetarian food which has been purified by being offered to God).

1714 tr. F. Bouchet Let. in Trav. Several Learned Missioners i. 22 Prajadam..in our Language signifies Divine Grace.]

1895 E. W. Hopkins Relig. India xv. 429 The prasāda doctrine (of special grace) belongs to a much earlier literature.

1921 R. 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.

1992 C. J. Fuller Camphor Flame iii. 74 The ash and powder are forms of prasada, literally meaning ‘grace’.