वि-√ मुच् 1.P. Ā. -मुञ्चति,
°ते (
Impv. -मुमोक्तु,
[RV. i, 24, 13] ), to unloose, unharness (
Ā. ‘one's own horses’), unyoke (
i.e. ‘make to halt, cause to stop or rest’),
[RV.] &c. &c.;
to take off (clothes, ornaments &c.),
[MBh.] ;
[Kāv.] &c.;
to release, set free, liberate,
ib.;
to leave, abandon, quit, desert, give up, relinquish,
ib.;
to shun, avoid,
[MuṇḍUp.] ;
[Bhag.] &c.;
to lose (consciousness),
[Hariv.] ;
to pardon, forgive,
[Gīt.] ;
[BhP.] ;
to emit, discharge, shed, pour or send forth,
[MBh.] ;
[R.] ;
[Pañcat.] (with
ग्रस्तम्, to set free a seized planet
i.e. ‘free it from eclipse’
[Sūryas.] );
to throw, hurl, cast (with
आत्मानम् and
loc. , ‘to cast one's self into’
[Uttarar.] ),
[MBh.] ;
[R.] &c.;
to utter (a sound),
[MBh.] ;
to assume (a shape),
[Mn. i, 56] ;
to lay (eggs),
[Pañcat. i, 353/354/] ;
Pass. -मुच्यते, to be unloosed or detached &c.;
to be slackened (as reins),
[Śak.] ;
to drop or be expelled (prematurely, as a fetus),
[Suśr.] ;
to be freed or delivered or released (
esp. from the bonds of existence), get rid of, escape from (
abl. adv. in
-तस्gen. , or
instr. ),
[Mn.] ;
[MBh.] &c.;
to be deprived of (
instr. ),
[Hit.] :
Caus. -मोचयति, to loosen, detach,
[Śak.] ;
to unyoke,
[Kauś.] ;
to set free, deliver from (
abl. ),
[Mn.] ;
[MBh.] &c.;
to keep off, avoid,
[R.] :
Desid. -मुमुक्षति,
°ते, to wish to liberate (
Ā. ‘one's self’),
[BhP.] वि-मुच् f. 2.f. unyoking, alighting, stopping, putting up,
[RV.] (
विमुचो नपात्, ‘son of unyoking’,
N. of
पूषन् as ‘conductor on the way to the next world’
ib.)