शौच (śauca) is a Sanskrit word meaning the name of a man, cleanness, purity, purification, purity of mind, integrity, and honesty, self-purification, both external and internal, evacuation of excrement, purification from defilement. Its 14 recorded definitions are grouped into 5 contexts, among them General Purity and Purification, Proper Name / Patronymic, Evacuation of Excrement.
शौच (śauca)n. cleanness, purity, purification (esp. from defilement caused by the death of a relation), Āśvalāyana-śrauta-sūtra (Title) ; Manu-smṛti (Title) ; Mahābhārata (Title) &c. [ID=221736]
1. Cleanness and purity.
2. Integrity and honesty.
शौच (śauca) [Printed book page 319-1] शौच (śauca) śauc-a, n. cleanness, purity (also ritual); purification by (—°); integrity, honesty: -tva, n.id.; -vat,a. pure (alsofig.). [ID=18185]
— Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Purification from personal defilement.
2. Purification after a relative's death.
3. Purity, cleanness.
शौच (śauca) [Printed book page 859] शौच (śauca) n. (-चं (-caṃ))
1 Purification by ablution, &c. from personal defilement.
2 Purification at given periods from defilement caused by the death of a relation, &c.
3 The state or property of freedom from defilement, purity, cleanness.
E. शुचि (śuci) purity, अण् (aṇ) aff.
[ID=39016]
— Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary
Purification by ablution, cleaning, or purity.
शौच (śauca) [Printed book page 778-b] शौच (śauca)(चं) ((caṃ)) 1. n. Purification by ablution; cleaning, purity. [ID=38672]
— Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Purification from defilement. 2. Cleansing. 3. Evacuation. 4. Honesty.
शौच (śauca) [Printed book page 729-21] शौच (śauca)n. 1. Purification from defilement (especially from defilement caused by a death in the family); 2. cleansing, M. v.114; 3. evacuation of cxcrement; 4. honesty. [ID=38383]
— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Purification by washing or other means. 2. Purification from defilement caused by a relative's death. 3. Purity and cleanness.
शौच (śauca) [Printed book page 731-a] शौच (śauca)
n. (-चं (-caṃ))
1. Purification by ablution, &c. from personal defilement. 2. Purification at given periods from defilement caused by the death of a relation, &c.
3. The state or property of freedom from defilement, purity, cleanness.
E. शुचि (śuci) purity, अण् (aṇ) aff.
[ID=40896]
— Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Purity or cleanness. 2. Honesty. 3. Purification or cleaning.
शौच (śauca) [Printed book page 557] शौच (śauca)n. cleanness, purification by (—°), purity, honesty. [ID=33165]
— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1. Purification from defilement.
2. Evacuation of excrement.
3. Purity and cleanness.
4. Honesty.
5. A proper name.
शौच (śauca) [Printed book page 1021-c] शौच (śauca)śauca, am, n. (fr. śuci), purification from personal defilement (especially from defilement caused by the death of a relation &c.); evacuation of excrement; freedom from defilement, purity, cleanness; honesty; (as), m. a proper N. —Śauca-kalpa, as, m. mode of purification, purificatory rite. —Śauca-kūpa, as, m. ‘cleansing-pit,’ a privy. —Śauca-tva,am, n. purity. —Śauca-vidhi, is, m. rule of purifi- cation (after defilement by the death of a relation &c.), directions for cleansing the person. —Śaucā-cāra (°ca-āc°), as, m. a purificatory rite, rule of purification established by immemorial custom, mode of cleansing the person by ablution &c. (after voiding excrement or contracting any defilement). —Śaucepsu(°ca-īp°), us, us, u, wishing or intending to obtain purification. [ID=47220]
A patronymic of a man and teacher also called Ahneya
शौच (śauca) [Printed book page 2-395] Śauca (‘descendant of Śuci’) is the patronymic of a man, called also Āhneya, who is mentioned as a teacher in the Taittirīya Āraṇyaka (ii. 12). [ID=3346]
— The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects
Evacuation of Excrement
1 definition1
evacuation of excrement
evacuation of excrement, Monier-Williams’ Sanskrit-English Dictionary, 1st edition with marginal notes (Title) [ID=221739]
(with Buddhists) self-purification (both external and internal), Monier-Williams’ Buddhism in its connexion with Brāhmaṇism and Hindūism: and in its contrast with Christianity (Title) 240 [ID=221738]
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Definitions on this page come from 10 works:
Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1872), Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary, The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.
