Pretashauca, Pretāśauca, Preta-ashauca, Pretaśauca, Preta-shauca: 5 definitions
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Pretashauca 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 terms Pretāśauca and Pretaśauca can be transliterated into English as Pretasauca or Pretashauca, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Pretashaucha.
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana IndexPretāśauca (प्रेताशौच).—Death pollution for ten days for Brahmanas, 12 for Kṣatriyas, 15 for Vaiśyas and one month for Śūdras.*
- * Viṣṇu-purāṇa III. 13. 18-19.
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 Dictionaryprētāśauca (प्रेताशौच).—n (S) Impurity contracted from carrying, or from some connection with, a corpse.
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 dictionaryPretaśauca (प्रेतशौच).—purification after the death of a relative.
Derivable forms: pretaśaucam (प्रेतशौचम्).
Pretaśauca is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms preta and śauca (शौच).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryPretaśauca (प्रेतशौच):—[=preta-śauca] [from preta > pre] n. ([Gāruḍa-purāṇa]) purification after the death of a kinsman.
[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.
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