Mritashauca, Mṛtāśauca, Mrita-ashauca: 7 definitions
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Mritashauca means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
The Sanskrit term Mṛtāśauca can be transliterated into English as Mrtasauca or Mritashauca, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Mritashaucha.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionarymṛtāśauca (मृताशौच).—n (S) Impurity contracted through a death in one's family or tribe.
Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishmṛtāśauca (मृताशौच).—n Impurity contracted through a death in one's family or tribe.
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 dictionaryMṛtāśauca (मृताशौच).—impurity contracted through the death of a relation; see अशौच (aśauca).
Derivable forms: mṛtāśaucam (मृताशौचम्).
Mṛtāśauca is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms mṛta and aśauca (अशौच).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryMṛtāśauca (मृताशौच).—n.
(-caṃ) Impurity contracted through the death of a near relation.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryMṛtāśauca (मृताशौच):—[from mṛta > mṛ] n. impurity contracted through the death of any one, [Catalogue(s)]
[Sanskrit to German]
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.
Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusMṛtāśauca (ಮೃತಾಶೌಚ):—[noun] religious defilement caused by the death of a person in one’s family.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Mrita, Ashauca.
Full-text: Ashauca, Kshayasutaka, Kadupani.
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