Āśauca
“ritual impurity from birth/death”
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āśauca · impurity · sūtaka · ritual impurity · birth or death impurity · purification after death · ritual impurity from birth · ritual impurity from death
spoken of as
5 expressionsRitual impurity“āśauca”2 mentions
Vīramitrodaya (Sanskrit) · Āṅgirasa Smṛti (Sanskrit)
Because for them, from the statement of Śaṅkha, it is understood that they are not to be given during impurity.
Sūtaka / Āśauca“ritual impurity”2 mentions
Āṅgirasa Smṛti (Sanskrit) · Parāśara Smṛti (Sanskrit)
**In Case of Continuous Ritual Impurity**
Sūtaka“Ritual Impurity”1 mention
Āṅgirasa Smṛti (Sanskrit)
**Ritual Impurity for Ten, Three, and One Day**
cremation and death impurity“āśauca”1 mention
Yājñavalkya Smṛti (Sanskrit)
The impurity from a death is desired to last for three nights or ten nights;
impurity from death“āśauca”1 mention
Manusmṛti (Sanskrit)
58 // Among *sapiṇḍas*, a ten-day period of impurity from a death is prescribed;
in the texts
Āṅgirasa Smṛti
The period of ritual impurity (sūtaka) observed by descendants and kin, graded by kinship proximity.
**Ritual Impurity for Ten, Three, and One Day**
The ritual impurity (*sūtaka*) for their descendants is proclaimed for that long.
After them are those called *samānodaka* (sharing libations of water), and then the *sagotrins* (of the same clan).
Manusmṛti
The state of ritual impurity incurred by death or birth within a kin group, governed by detailed time-based rules.
58 // Among *sapiṇḍas*, a ten-day period of impurity from a death is prescribed;
Parāśara Smṛti
Ritual impurity following birth or death, whose duration and conditions are extensively legislated according to caste, kinship, and circumstance.
by death, even celestial nymphs.
For the fourth degree of kinship, it is ten nights;
From birth until teething, purification is immediate;
Vīramitrodaya
The state of ritual impurity (āśauca), arising from birth or death in the family (or from a wound), which suspends most ancestral rites until it passes.
Because for them, from the statement of Śaṅkha, it is understood that they are not to be given during impurity.
—by this previously cited verse, the performance at its end is enjoined only for birth and death impurity, not for the impurity of a wound;
There, when the death anniversary *śrāddha* is obstructed by ritual impurity (*āśauca*), it should be performed on the day after the end of the impurity.
Viṣṇu Smṛti
The state of ritual impurity following a birth or death in the family, whose duration and remedy vary by caste, relationship, and manner of death.
One shall not eat the food of anyone in *āśauca*.
After the *āśauca* has passed, he shall perform a penance.
And a Rājanya who has eaten during the *āśauca* of a Vaiśya.
Yājñavalkya Smṛti
The ritual impurity incurred by death or birth within a family, whose duration is variable by circumstance and status.
The impurity from a death is desired to last for three nights or ten nights;
The impurity from birth for the parents is due to the mother's seeing of the blood;
If a birth or death occurs within the period of another, one is purified by the remaining days;