PRASADA
image:Prasadam2.jpg, 200px, ''Naivedya'' offered to Radha Krishna in Sri Maya Chandrodaya Mandir, Mayapur, Sri Maya Chandrodaya Mandir in Mayapur, India Prasāda (, Sanskrit: प्रसाद), prasad or prasadam is a religious offering in Hinduism. Most often ''Prasada'' is vegetarian food especially cooked for devotees after praise and thanksgiving to a god. ''Mahaprasada'' (also called ''bhandarā''),Pashaura Singh, Louis E. Fenech, 2014The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies/ref> is the consecrated food offered to the deity in a Hindu temple which is then distributed and partaken by all the devotees regardless of any orientation.Chitrita Banerji, 2010Eating India: Exploring the Food and Culture of the Land of SpicesSubhakanta Behera, 2002Construction of an identity discourse: Oriya literature and the Jagannath lovers (1866–1936) pp. 140–177.Susan Pattinson, 2011The Final Journey: Complete Hospice Care for the Departing Vaishnavas pp. 220. ''Prasada'' is closely linked to t ...
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