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मुच्

cl.6 P. A1. (

) muñc/ati-, te- (

also, muc/anti-, mucasva-; parasmE-pada muñcāna-

; perfect tense, mum/oca-, mumuc/e-, Vedic or Veda , also, mum/ocat-, m/umocati-, mumucas-, mumoktu-, amumuktam-; Aorist /amok-

; imperative mogdh/i-

; amauk-

; /amucat-

; amukṣi-, mukṣata-

; preceding mucīṣṭa-

; mukṣīya-

; future, moktā-,

; mokṣyati-, te-

etc.; infinitive mood moktum-

etc.; ind.p. muktv/ā-

, -m/ucya-

, m/okam-,

), to loose, let loose, free, let go, slacken, release, liberate ("from", ablative or -tas-; A1.and Passive voice with ablative or instrumental case,rarely with genitive case"to free one's self, get rid of, escape from")

etc., etc. (with kaṇṭham-,to relax the throat id est raise a cry;with raśmīn-,to slacken the reins;with prāṇān-,to deprive of life, kill) ; to spare, let live

; to set free, allow to depart, dismiss, despatch ("to" , loc. or dative case)

etc. ; to relinquish, abandon, leave, quit, give up, set aside, depose

(with kalevaram-, deham-, prāṇān-or jīvitam-,to quit the body or give up the ghost id est to die) ; to yield, grant, bestow

; to send forth, shed, emit, utter, discharge, throw, cast, hurl, shoot at ("or upon" locative case dative case,or accusative with or without prati-;with ablative and ātmānam-,to throw one's self down from)

etc. ; (A1.) to put on

(Scholiast or Commentator) : Passive voice mucy/ate- (or m/ucyate-, Epic also ti-and future mokṣyati-; Aorist /amoci-), to be loosed, to be set free or released

etc. ; to deliver one's self from, to get rid of, escape (especially from sin or the bonds of existence)

etc. ; to abstain from (ablative)

; to be deprived or destitute of (instrumental case)

: Causal mocayati- (mc. also te-; Aorist amūmucat-), to cause to loose or let go or give up or discharge or shed (with two accusative)

; to unloose, unyoke, unharness (horses)

; to set free, liberate, absolve from (ablative)

etc. ; to redeem (a pledge)

; to open (a road)

; to give away, spend, bestow

; to gladden, delight, yield enjoyment

: Desiderative of Causal mumocayiṣati-, to wish to deliver (from the bondage of existence)

(confer, compare, mumocayiṣu-): Desiderative mumukṣati-, te-, (P.) to wish or be about to set free

; to be about to give up or relinquish (life)

; to wish or intend to cast or hurl

; (A1.) to wish to free one's self

; to desire final liberation or beatitude

(confer, compare mokṣ-): Intensive momucyate- or monokti- grammar ([ confer, compare Greek , ; Latin mungo,mucus.])

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