Kalashauca, Kālāśauca, Kala-ashauca: 4 definitions
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Kalashauca means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. 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 Kālāśauca can be transliterated into English as Kalasauca or Kalashauca, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Kalashaucha.
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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryKālāśauca (कालाशौच).—period of mourning, ceremonial impurity caused by the birth of a child or death of a relation in the family; see अशौच (aśauca).
Derivable forms: kālāśaucam (कालाशौचम्).
Kālāśauca is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kāla and aśauca (अशौच).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English DictionaryKālāśauca (कालाशौच).—n.
(-caṃ) Season of mourning or impurity. E. kāla and aśauca impurity.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryKālāśauca (कालाशौच):—[from kāla] n. idem
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English DictionaryKālāśauca (कालाशौच):—[kālā+śauca] (caṃ) 1. n. Season of impurity, as in mourning.
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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