deliverance, release, emancipation, dissociation from the things of the world, Arahantship DN.ii.70, DN.ii.111, DN.iii.34, DN.iii.35, DN.iii.230, DN.iii.288; MN.i.196 (samaya˚ & asamaya˚) SN.i.159 (cetaso v.); SN.ii.53, SN.ii.123; SN.iii.121; SN.iv.33; AN.ii.87 AN.iv.316; AN.v.11; Vin.v.164 (cittassa); Snp.1071 (which Cnd.588 explains as “agga” etc., thus strangely taking it in meaning of mokkha2, perhaps as edifying etym.); Cnd.466 (in expln of Bhagavā); Pts.i.22; Pts.ii.35 (as 68!), Pts.ii.243 Pp.11 sq.; Vb.342; Dhs.248; Ne.90, Ne.100, Ne.119, Ne.126 Vism.13, Vism.668 sq.; Mil.159; Pv-a.98; Sdhp.34, Sdhp.264. The three vimokkhas are: suññato v., animitto v. appaṇihito v. Pts.ii.35; Vism.658. The eight vimokkhas or stages of emancipation, are: the condition of rūpī, arūpa-saññī, recognition of subha, realization of ākāsānañc’āyatana, of viññāṇ’ānañc’āyatana ākiñcaññ’āyatana, neva-saññā-n’āsaññ’āyatana, saññāvedayita-nirodha DN.iii.262 (cp. Dial. iii.242), AN.i.40 AN.iv.306; Vb.342; explained in detail at Pts.ii.38–Pts.ii.40. [cp BSk. aṣṭau vimokṣāḥ, e.g. Avs.ii.69, Avs.ii.153.]-In sequence jhāna vimokkha samādhi samāpatti (magga phala) at Vin.i.97, Vin.i.104; Vin.iii.91; Vin.iv.25; AN.iii.417, AN.iii.419 AN.v.34, AN.v.38; Vb.342
■ See also jhāna.
fr. vi + muc, cp. mokkha1