Kuśodaka
Kuśodaka · kuśa-udaka, “water with kuśa”
Grammar: neuter noun; a compound of kuśa (the sacred grass) and udaka (water).
Meaning: water with kuśa, taken as prāśana and for purification.
In the scriptures: in the Brahma Parva it is the food of Pūrṇimā (Chapter 16), and it is used for bathing and drinking for purification (Chapter 51). The observer takes it as prāśana (Chapter 96), and with the feeding of brāhmaṇas it is enjoined for purity of the body (Chapter 97). In the Uttara Parva, the woman of the Lalitā Tṛtīyā vrata sips it at night, and it is the prāśana of the first month (Chapter 21). It is the night prāśana of Mārgaśīrsha in the Rambhā Tṛtīyā vrata (Chapter 24) and the sixth prāśana of the Saubhāgyaśayana vrata (Chapter 25). In the monthly Kṛshṇāshṭamī vratas, drunk at night in Vaiśākha, with pūjā of Bhagavān Śiva by the name Śiva, it gives the fruit of ten Purushamedha yajñas (Chapter 57). It is one of the monthly prāśanas of the Śiva Caturdaśī vrata (Chapters 96–97), and the prāśana of the four months of the second pāraṇā (Chapter 104).
Sources
- Bhavishya Purāṇa, Brahma Parva, Chapters 16, 51, 96–97; Uttara Parva, Chapters 21, 24–25, 57, 96–97, 104