aSOcaM 1 Impurity, dirtiness, foulness; Pt. 1. 195. 2 Legal impurity or contamination; defilement caused either by child-birth (called jananASOca ) or by the death of some relation (called mftASOca ); it lasts for 10 days; during the mftASOca a person defiled by it is not to touch any body else, or to eat with others in the same row or to do any sacred action; ahorAtramupAsIrannaSOcaM bAMDavEH saha Ms. 11. 184. Comp. — aMtaH end of defilement. — saMkaraH blending or coming together of two or more defilements.