cl. 1. Ā. mocate, to cheat, [Dhātup. vi, 12] (= √ mac, q.v.)
cl. 6. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxviii, 136]) muñcáti, °te ([RV.] also, mucánti, mucasva; p. muñcāna, [MBh.]; pf., mumóca, mumucé, Ved., also, mumócat, múmocati, mumucas, mumoktu, amumuktam; aor. ámok, [AV.]; Impv. mogdhí, [TĀr.]; amauk, [Br.]; ámucat, [AV.]; amukṣi, mukṣata, [RV.]; [AV.]; Prec. mucīṣṭa, [RV.]; mukṣīya, [ib.]; fut., moktā, [Kālid.]; mokṣyati, °te, [Br.] &c.; inf. moktum, [Br.] &c.; ind.p. muktvā́, [ib.], -múcya, [RV.], mókam, [Br.]), to loose, let loose, free, let go, slacken, release, liberate (‘from’, abl. or -tas; Ā. and Pass. with abl. or instr., rarely with gen. ‘to free one's self, get rid of, escape from’), [RV.] &c., &c. (with kaṇṭham, to relax the throat i.e. raise a cry; with raśmīn, to slacken the reins; with prāṇān, to deprive of life, kill); to spare, let live, [R.]; to set free, allow to depart, dismiss, despatch (‘to’, loc. or dat.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; to relinquish, abandon, leave, quit, give up, set aside, depose, [ib.] (with kalevaram, deham, prāṇān or jīvitam, to quit the body or give up the ghost i.e. to die); to yield, grant, bestow, [Rājat.]; [Campak.]; to send forth, shed, emit, utter, discharge, throw, cast, hurl, shoot (‘at or upon’ loc. dat., or acc. with or without prati; with abl. and ātmānam, to throw one's self down from), [Yājñ.]; [MBh.]; [R.] &c.; (Ā.) to put on [Bhaṭṭ.] (Sch.) : Pass. mucyáte (or múcyate, ep. also °ti and fut. mokṣyati; aor. ámoci), to be loosed, to be set free or released, [RV.] &c. &c.; to deliver one's self from, to get rid of, escape (esp. from sin or the bonds of existence), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to abstain from (abl.), [Pañcat.]; to be deprived or destitute of (instr.), [MBh.] : Caus. mocayati (mc. also °te; aor. amūmucat), to cause to loose or let go or give up or discharge or shed (with two acc.), [Megh.]; [Bhaṭṭ.]; to unloose, unyoke, unharness (horses), [MBh.]; [R.]; to set free, liberate, absolve from (abl.), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.; to redeem (a pledge), [Yājñ.]; to open (a road), [Prab.]; to give away, spend, bestow, [MārkP.]; to gladden, delight, yield enjoyment, [Dhātup. xxxiii, 66] : Desid. of Caus. mumocayiṣati, to wish to deliver (from the bondage of existence), [Śaṃk.] (cf., mumocayiṣu) : Desid. mumukṣati, °te, (P.) to wish or be about to set free, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 57], Sch.; to be about to give up or relinquish (life), [Kathās.]; to wish or intend to cast or hurl, [Ragh.]; (Ā.) to wish to free one's self, [Pāṇ. vii, 4, 57], Sch.; to desire final liberation or beatitude, [RV.]; [BhP.] (cf. √ mokṣ) : Intens. momucyate or momokti, Gr.
[cf. Gk. μύσσω, μῦκος, μυκτής; Lat. mungo, mucus.]
mfn. freeing or delivering from (see aṃho-m°)
letting go or letting fall, dropping, discharging, shooting, sending (see jala-, parṇa-, sāyaka-m° &c.)
f. deliverance (see a-múc).