Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“death”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
As a deity name
Name 800 of the Ganesha Sahasranāma — Ganesha Purana (Upasana Khanda), as taught by Sage Vyasa / Lord Ganesha
As a Hindi name
Note: the Hindi and Sanskrit paths disagree here — the Sanskrit dictionary reading is negative (“death”) while the Hindi reading is not. Both are shown below; read them together before choosing.
मोक्ष · noun · masculine
किसी प्रकार के बंधन से छूट जाना । मोचन । छुटकारा · शास्त्रों और पुराणों के अनुसार जीव का जन्म और मरण के बंधन से छूट जाना । आवागमन से रहित हो जाना । मुक्ति । नजात · मृत्यु । मौत — Śabdasāgara
मोक्ष · moksh · s.m.
Emancipation, deliverance, freedom, liberation, escape, release — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1092
मोक्ष · masculine
moksha (liberation from the cycle of reincarnation)
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
“Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewk- Sanskrit मुच् (muc) Sanskrit मोक्ष् (mokṣ) Proto-Indo-European *-os Sanskrit -अ (-a) Sanskrit मोक्ष (mokṣa)lbor. Hindi मोक्ष Learned borrowing from Sanskrit मोक्ष (mokṣa). Doublet of मोख (mokh).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
emancipation, liberation, release from (abl., rarely gen. or comp.), &c.
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Dictionary citations
mokṣa m. (ifc. f(ā). ) emancipation, liberation, release from (abl., rarely gen. or comp.), MBh.; Kāv. &c.
release from worldly existence or transmigration, final or eternal emancipation, Up.; Mn.; MBh. &c. (IW. 39)
death, L.
N. of partic. sacred hymns conducive to final eman˚, Yājñ.
(in astron.) the liberation of an eclipsed or occulted planet, the last contact or separation of the eclipsed and eclipsing bodies, end of an eclipse, Sūryas.; VarBṛS.
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