(m. sg. and pl., in later language m. pl. and n. sg.) a house, habitation, home, [RV.] (mṛn-máya g°, ‘house of earth’, grave, [vii, 89, 1]), [AV.] (adharā́d g°, ‘the lower world’, [ii, 14, 3]) &c.
(ifc. f(A). , [R. i, 5, 9]; f(I). , [Pañcat. i, 17, 5])
ifc. with names of gods ‘a temple’ (cf. caṇḍikā-, devatā-), of plants ‘a bower’
gṛhá m. pl. a house as containing several rooms, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.
the inhabitants of a house, family, [ŚBr. i]; [BhP. iii, 2, 7]; [Kathās. xx, 21]
domestic or family life, [Jātakam.]
a wife, [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 144], [Kāś.]
gṛhá m. a householder, [BhP. xi, 8, 9]
gṛhá n. a wife, [Pañcat. iii, 7, 13]
a sign of the zodiac, [VarBṛS. vci], [civ]
an astrological mansion, [VarBṛ. i], [iv f.]
N. of the 4th astrological mansion, [i, 16]
a square (in chess or in any similar game), [Kād. i, 48]; [Pāṇ. v, 2, 9], [Kaiy.]
a name, appellation, [L.] (cf. anti-, bhumi-, śayyā-, su)
gṛha—stha mfn. ifc. living or staying in any one's house, [MBh.]
gṛha—stha m. a householder, Brāhman in the 2nd period of his religious life (performing the duties of the master of a house and father of a family after having finished his studies and after investiture with the sacred thread; cf. [RTL. pp. 138]; [150]; [362] & [386]), [Gaut.]; [Āp.]; [Mn.]; [BhP. vii], &c.
gṛha—bali m. a domestic oblation (offering of the remnants of a meal to all creatures, such as animals and certain deities; see [RTL. p. 422]), [Mn. iii, 265]; [MārkP. xxix]
gṛha—medhá m. a domestic sacrifice, [MaitrS. i, 10, 15]; [ŚBr. x]; [Pāṇ. iv, 2, 32]
gṛha—medhá mfn. one who performs the domestic sacrifices or is the object of them (as the Maruts), [RV. vii, 59, 10]; [MaitrS. i, 10, 1] and [15]; [ŚāṅkhŚr. iii]
connected with domestic rites or a householder's duties, [BhP. ii f.]
gṛha—medhá m. a householder's duties, [Āp.]
gṛha—medhá m. pl. N. of particular winds causing rain, [TĀr. i, 9, 5]; [RV. ii, 12, 12]; [Sāy.]
gṛhá—pati (°há-), m. ([Pāṇ. vi, 2, 18]) the master of a house, householder, [RV. vi, 53, 2]; [AV.]; [ŚBr. iv], [viii]; [Kauś.] &c.
N. of Agni, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AV.]; [ŚBr. i], [v]; [MBh. iii, 14211]; [xii, 8883] (gen. pl. °tinām metrically for °tīnām)
for graha-p° (q.v.)
a householder of peculiar merit (giving alms and performing all the prescribed ceremonies), esp. one who has the precedence at a grand sacrifice (sattrá), [AitBr. v], [viii]; [ŚBr. viii], [xi f.]; [TāṇḍyaBr.] &c.
the head or judge of a village, [Daś. viii, 207]; [Mṛcch. ii, 14/15, 8], Sch.
a Brāhman of the 2nd order who after having finished his studies marries, [W.]
= dharma (the maintenance of a sacred and perpetual fire, the duty of a householder, hospitality &c.), [L.]
gṛha—°medhín mfn. one who performs the domestic sacrifices, religious man, [AV.]; [TS. iii]; [ŚBr. xiii] &c.
being the object of domestic rites (as the Maruts), [VS. xvii], [xxiv]; [TS. i]; [TBr. i]; [ŚBr. ii]; [KātyŚr.]
gṛha—°medhín m. the householder who performs the domestic rites, a married Brāhman who has a household, a Brāhman in the 2nd period of his life, [Mn. iii f.], [vi]; [MBh.] &c.