kshira

{{Short description|Sanskrit term for milk}}

Kshira ({{Langx|sa|क्षीर|translit=Kṣīra}}){{Cite book |last=Gvozdanović |first=Jadranka |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S-hmNOLuDGsC&dq=K%E1%B9%A3%C4%ABra+Sanskrit+milk&pg=PA286 |title=Indo-European Numerals |date=1992 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-011322-8 |pages=286}} is a Sanskrit word for milk.{{Cite book |last=Monier-Williams |first=Sir Monier |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FzRDAQAAMAAJ&dq=Kshira+milk&pg=PA268 |title=A Sanskṛit-English Dictionary Etymologically and Philologically Arranged: With Special Reference to Greek, Latin, Gothic, German, Anglo-Saxon, and Other Cognate Indo-European Languages |date=1872 |publisher=Clarendon Press |pages=268 |language=en}} Kshira is also the archaic name for sweet rice pudding, kheer.{{Cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/business-news/ds-group-enters-dairy-market-with-ksheer/article1-1112050.aspx|title=DS group enters dairy market, with 'ksheer'|work=Hindustan Times|date=20 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220090554/http://www.hindustantimes.com/business-news/ds-group-enters-dairy-market-with-ksheer/article1-1112050.aspx |access-date=29 March 2023|archive-date=2013-12-20 }} Kshira is used and perceived differently from normal milk, which is commonly known as Dugdha in Sanskrit. Kshira is variably used for any liquid or watery substance as well. Kshira is also used in Hindu mythology and cosmogony to describe the Ocean of Milk and the abode of the deity Vishnu, the Kshira Sagara.Vishnu Purana