Sentence examples for sacred grass from inspiring English sources

The officiating priest was girt with a sword and carried in his hand the barsman (barsom), or bundle of sacred grass.

The sacred beverage called soma was set out on "the sacred grass," and the ancestors were invited to ascend from their subterranean abode to partake of it and to bless their pious descendants.

In many sacrifices, branches or leaves of sacred plants, such as the kusha plant (a sacred grass used as fodder) of the Vedic sacrifice and the Brahmanic puja (ritual), are used in rituals such as the Zoroastrian sprinkling (bareshnum), or great purification, rite, in which the notion of fertility and prosperity is combined with their sacred characters (see purification rite).

He placed himself on a bundle of sacred grass at his feet and refused to budge.

This captures the landscape as it is lived, shaking out the map of memory till it becomes a dynamic interweaving of sacred grasses or bursts of spinifex or rocks.

The Nepali Bhanubhakta Ramayana by Bhanubhakta Acharya (1814 186868) portrays Rama creating the illusionary Sita from the sacred Kusha grass and entrusting Sita to Agni; at Agni Pariksha, the grass Maya Sita turns into ashes while the true Sita reappears before the world.

‘Garnishing’ vegetables such as spring onions, coriander, sweet basil, sacred basil, lemon grass, chilli and other dills are planted in small areas close to houses.

The grass is sacred ground," he said.

It was made from the wood of a "sacred tree," under which no grass grew, and which caused any animal that came near it to die.

I told him I was a little wary of the shiny new Browns Stadium, maybe because it was celebrated so wildly that it got turned into sacred ground long before much grass got trampled.

I asked him about it, and he told me it was made from the wood of a "sacred tree," under which no grass grows, and which causes any animal that comes near it to die.