Mora [the contracted, regular P. form of *Sk. mayūra, viâ *ma -- ūra>mora. See also Geiger, P.Gr. § 27 & Pischel, Prk. Gr. § 166. -- Vedic only mayūrī f. pea -- hen] a peacock J ii.275 (˚upasevin, see C. on this passage); vi.218, 497; PvA 142; DhA i.394. A peacock's tail (sometimes used as a fan) is denoted in var. terms in cpds., as mora -- kalāpa DhA i.387; -- piccha Vin i.186; -- piñcha Vin ii.130; -- pīñja PvA 142, 176; VvA 147; -- sikali (?) KhA 49; -- hattha Vv 3344 (=mayūra -- piñjehi kataŋ makasa -- vījaniŋ); Pv iii.117. Perhaps also as morakkha "a peacock's eye" at VbhA 63 (morakkhaka loha, a kind of copper, grouped with pisācaloha). It is more likely however that morakkha is distorted fr. *mauryaka, patronymic of mura, a local (tribal) designation (cp. murala), then by pop. etym. connected with mora peacock. With this cp. Sk. moraka "a kind of steel" BR.