Gośṛṅgodaka
Gośṛṅgodaka · go-śṛṅga-udaka, “water from a cow’s horn”
Grammar: neuter noun; go (cow), śṛṅga (horn) and udaka (water); also called gośṛṅga-jala.
Meaning: water poured from a cow’s horn, taken as prāśana in a vrata.
In the scriptures: In the Lalitā Tṛtīyā that Bhagavān Śiva told Umā on Kailāsa, gośṛṅgodaka is the prāśana of the ninth month (Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 21). In the Saubhāgyaśayana, on the śukla tṛtīyā of Caitra, the day Lalitā Devī was married to Bhagavān Śaṅkara, the vratī takes gośṛṅgodaka at night and sleeps on the ground; water from a cow’s horn is also the prāśana of the first month of the year that follows (Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 25). It is among the monthly offerings of the Ananta-tṛtīyā (Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 26). In the monthly Kṛshṇāshṭamī, in Jyeshṭha, Bhagavān Śiva is worshipped as Paśupati and the vratī drinks gośṛṅga-jala, gaining the fruit of a lakh of godānas (Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 57).
Related terms: Gomūtra · Gomaya · Prāśana · Kuśodaka
Sources
- Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapters 21, 25, 26, 57