After ghi has been poured thereon, a bundle of palasa (Butea frondosa) sticks is given to him, and he puts it on the fire after repeating certain Vedic riks.
He then takes the palasa staff, and the teacher says:--"Up with life.
They, and the palasa stick, should be retained by the Brahmachari till the close of his studentship.
On the second and third days, the boy puts palasa sticks into the sacred fire, and pours ghi thereon.
The staff of the Brahman ought to be made of Palasa wood.
The Palasa was much employed by the Hindus in religious ceremonies, particularly in one connected with the blessing of calves to ensure them proving good milkers.
Palasa is a Sanscrit word, meaning "leaf," but in course of time it became applied to the Butea frondosa as well as the name Parna, which also signifies a leaf.
The Palasa is in India a sacred tree, and has a special cultus; as such, it is held to be imbued with the immortalising Soma, the beverage of the gods.
This done, he stuck up thePalasa rod eastward of the holy fire, and bade it protect the cattle.
Near that tract overgrown with Palasa tree, the way diverges into two.
The Palasa or Dhak is sacred, partly on account of its use in producing the sacred fire, and partly because its orange blossoms are used to dye the coloured dust and water thrown about at the Holi festival.
The connection between the Palasa and the Soma perhaps indicates that this may have been the case.
It is the custom for him to take a rupee and fasten it up in the leaf of the Palasa tree with a thorn.
An effigy of the deceased is made, in which twigs of the Palasa tree represent the bones, a cocoanut or Bel fruit the head, pearls or cowry shells the eyes, and a piece of birch bark or the skin of a deer the cuticle.
It was again a Vedic custom to drive the cows from their calves by striking them with a rod of a Palasa tree.
Each member of the tribe constructs a hollow mound in front of his door, and thereon erects a stake of Palasa wood (Butea frondosa), which is regarded as the family fetish and periodically worshipped.
On the very spot where Amra had reclined, he perceived a lotos-leaf and a palasa flower laid together.
The palasa tree or the "imperial mimosa" of the East.
From the feather sprung the parna or palasa tree, which possessed red sap and bore scarlet blossoms.
The divining rod was made either of hazel, the rowan or mountain ash, or some other of the European representatives of either the palasa tree, or the "imperial mimosa of the East.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palasa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
