Kusha grass

[3] The Rigveda prescribes the sprinkling on the soma juice upon kusha grass in the performance of a rite.

[4] Chapter 6 of the Bhagavad Gita contains the prescription to use kusha grass along with deerskin and cloth in the ideal seat of mediation.

[5] The Garuda Purana states that the kusha grass is born of the hair of Vishnu, and that it offers residence to the essence of all three of the Trimurti.

[6] The Bhagavata Purana features a legend from the Uttara Kanda in which Sita does not leave behind her son Lava in Valmiki's hermitage as she usually does while going out.

[7] The Varaha Purana describes one of the seven continents of the earth named kushadvipa, surrounded by the ocean of milk and containing seven mountains.