1. setting free, delivering Dhp-a.iii.199 (parissayā˚); Dhtp.376, Dhtp.539; Dhtm.609. Cp moca².
2. letting loose, discharging, in assu˚; shedding tears Pv-a.18. Cp. vi˚.

fr. moceti

…DN-a.i.284; Pv-a.39. -mocana shedding of tears Pv-a.18.

Vedic aśru, Av. asrū, Lith aszarà, with etym. not definitely…

…of a burden SN.iii.25.

• -mocana delivery (of a pregnant woman) Ja.i.19.
• -vāhin “burdenbearer,” one…

…lokantaṃ dukkhā atthi pamocanaṃ AN.ii.49 Kammakkhayā… sabbaṃ d˚ṃ nijjiṇṇaṃ bhavissati MN.ii.217, cp. MN.i.93. kāme pahāya……

…Dhp-a.iv.37;

• -pamocana the state of being released from, freed from the fetters of the “body” always w. ref.to…

…lokantaṃ dukkhā atthi pamocanaṃ). -antagū one who has reached the end of the world (and of all things worldly) epithet of an Arahant…

…setting free Dhtm.631, Dhtm.751, where Dhtp in same context reads mocana.

root-noun of moc, Caus. of muc

…Dhtp.539 mokkha = mocana; Dhtm.751 moca

Mokkha²

adjective the headmost, first, foremost, in series aggo seṭṭho m uttamo…

…sabba-g˚-pamocanaṃ SN.i.210; Iti.104 similarly Iti.122 (see above). gabbhaseyyā (rebirth) na te punam…

…˚ṃ). At Dhp.274 we should read pamohanaṃ for pamocanaṃ.

fr. pa + muc

deceiving, deception, delusion Dhp.274 (T. reads pamocana; Dhp-a.iii.403 explains by vañcana).

fr. pa + muh

…ti p.); Dhp-a.iii.199 (˚mocana); Pv-a.216, Dhs-a.330.

fr. pari + ; śri? Etym. doubtful, cp. Weber, Ind. Streifen iii.395 and Andersen,…

crying, weeping Pv-a.18 (+ assu-mocana, in explⁿ of ruṇṇa), Pv-a.63 (= paridevita).

pp. of rudati, equivalent to ruṇṇa

1. letting loose, discharging Dhtm.216 (assu˚).
2. release from, doing away with Mhvs.35, Mhvs.73 (antarāya˚).

vi + mocana