Alternative spellings of this word include Malotsarg.

In Hinduism

Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: archive.org: Shiva Purana - English Translation

Malotsarga (मलोत्सर्ग) refers to the “evacuation of the bowels”, according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.1.11, while explaining the mode of worshipping Śiva:—“[...] one shall get up early in the morning during the Brāhma Muhūrta (about an hour before dawn). He shall remember the preceptor and Śiva. O sage, he shall then remember the holy centres and meditate on Hari. Thereafter he shall remember me, the deities and the sages. Then he shall recite a prayer in the name of Śiva duly. Then he shall get up and evacuate his bowels (malotsarga) in southern quarter. The evacuation of the bowels shall be done in an isolated place. [...]”.

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The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

malōtsarga (मलोत्सर्ग).—m (S) malōtsarjana n S See malavisarga.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Malotsarga (मलोत्सर्ग).—evacuation of the feces, voiding the excrement.

Derivable forms: malotsargaḥ (मलोत्सर्गः).

Malotsarga is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms mala and utsarga (उत्सर्ग).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Malotsarga (मलोत्सर्ग):—[from mala] m. evacuation of the feces, [Siṃhāsana-dvātriṃśikā or vikramāditya-caritra, jaina recension]

[Sanskrit to German]

Malotsarga in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Malotsarga (मलोत्सर्ग) [Also spelled malotsarg]:—(nm) excretion of faeces.

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Partial matches: Utsarga, Maala, Mala.

Full-text: Malotsarg, Utsarga.

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