aśaucam1 Impurity, dirtiness, foulness; Pt.1.195. -2 Legal impurity or contamination; defilement caused either by child-birth (called jananāśauca) or by the death of some relation (called mṛtāśauca); it lasts for 10 days; during the mṛtāśauca 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; ahorātramupāsīrannaśaucaṃ bāndhavaiḥ saha Ms.11.183. -Comp. -antaḥ end of defilement. -saṃkaraḥ blending or coming together of two or more defilements.