Legal impurity or contamination; defilement caused either by child-birth (called जननाशौच) or by the death of some relation (called मृताशौच); it lasts for 1 days; during the मृताशौच a person defiled by it is not to touch anybody else, or to eat with others in the 'same row or to do any sacred action; अहोरात्रमुपासी- रन्नशौचं बान्धवैः सह Ms.11.183.
Derived forms and compounds
-अन्तः end of defilement.
-संकरः blending or coming together of two or more defilements.
Source: Apte
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