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Entry उच्छिष्ट

उच्छिष्टucchiṣṭap. p.Left as a remainder
1. Left as a remainder
2. Rejected, abandoned; अन्denotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be supplied R.12.15.
3. Stale; denotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be suppliedकल्पना stale idea or invention.
4. Unholy, impure; उच्छिष्टं तु यवक्रीतम- पकृष्टकमण्डलुम् Mb.3.136.14.
5. (Used actively). One who has not washed his mouth and hands after meals, and hence considered impure; न चोच्छिष्टः क्वचिद् व्रजेत् Ms.2.56;
Derived forms and compounds
- -ष्टम्
  
  Leaving, fragments remainder, (especially of food or sacrifice); उच्छिष्टमपि चामेध्यम् Bg.17.1; नोच्छिष्टं कस्यचिद्दद्यात् Ms.2.56.; so द्विजdenotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be supplied, गृध्रdenotes that the rest of the word under consideration is to be supplied.
  
  Honey.
- -अन्नम् leavings, offal.
- -गणपतिः (or गणेशः) (opposed to शुद्ध गणपति) Gaṇesa as worshipped by the उच्छिष्टs (or men who leave the remains of their food in their mouth during prayer).
- -चाण्डालिनी a form of the goddess मातङ्गी.
- -भोजन, -भोजिन्, -भोक्तृ Adjective one who eats the leavings of another or eats the leavings of offerings to gods (as an attendant upon an idol). चिकित्सिकस्य क्रूरस्योच्छिष्टभोजिनः Ms.4.212.
- -भोजनम् eating the leavings of another.
- -मोदनम् Wax.
In the Gita17·10

उच्छिष्टमपि चामेध्यं भोजनं तामसप्रियम् ॥

ucchiṣṭamapi cāmedhyaṁ bhojanaṁ tāmasapriyam. — The tamasic temperament takes a perverse pleasure in cold, impure, stale, rotten or tasteless food or even accepts like the animals the remnants… 17·10
- उच्छिष्टम्ucchiṣṭamnominative singular of the neuter form of the adjective ucchiṣṭa (polluted, the remnants half-eaten by others).
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