grath or cl. 9. P. grathnā́ti (fut. p. granthiṣyat, [Kāṭh. xxv, 8]; perf. 3. pl. jagranthur or grethur, [Pāṇ. i, 2, 6]; [Siddh.]; ind.p. granthitvā or grath°, [23], [Kāś.]), to fasten, tie or string together, arrange, connect in a regular series, [TS. vi f.]; [Kāṭh. xxv, 8]; [Bhaṭṭ.]; to string words together, compose (a literary work), [Prab. vi, 5] : cl. 1. P. Ā. grathati, °te, [Dhātup.] (v.l.); P. granthati, [xxxiv, 31]; Ā. granthate (aor. agranthiṣṭa), to be strung together or composed (a literary work), [Bhāradv.] on [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 89] : Caus. P. Ā. granthayati, °te, to string together, [MBh. iv, 262]; [cf. κλώθω; Lat. glut-en ?]
grath or cl. 1. Ā. grathate or granth°, to be crooked (lit. and fig.), [Dhātup. ii, 35.]
an artificial arrangement of words (esp. of 32 syllables = śloka, [Jain.]), verse, composition, treatise, literary production, book in prose or verse, text (opposed to artha ‘meaning’, [VarBṛS.]; [Vākyap.]; [Sarvad.]), [Nir. i, 20]; [Pāṇ.]; [MBh.]; [Up.] &c.
a section (of [Kāṭh.])
the book or sacred scriptures of the Sikhs containing short moral poems by Nānak Ṣāh and others (cf. [RTL. pp. 158]-[177])
granthí m. a knot, tie, knot of a cord, knot tied in the end of a garment for keeping money ([Pañcat.]), bunch or protuberance of any kind (esp. if produced by tying several things together), [RV. ix, 97, 18] & [x, 143, 2]; [AV.]; [TS.] &c.
the joint of a reed or cane, [Prab. v, 1, 8]
joint of the body, [Mṛcch. i, 1]; [Dhūrtas.]; [Sāh.]
a complaint, (knotting i.e.) swelling and hardening of the vessels (as in varicocele), [R.]; [Suśr.]
‘a knot tied closely and therefore difficult to be undone’, difficulty, doubt, [ChUp.]; [KaṭhUp.]; [MuṇḍUp.]; [MBh.] &c.
a bell, [Kathās. lxv, 135 f.]
the point of a moustache, [Nalac.]
N. of several plants and bulbous roots (granthi-parṇa, hitāvalī, bhadra-mustā, piṇḍālu), [L.] (cf. udara-, kaṭu-, kāla-, kṛmi-, keśa-, go-, dāma-, &c.)
n. (ifc.) stringing, tying or connecting together (as a chaplet or book), arranging, composing, [Pāṇ. iii, 1, 26], Vārtt. 15, [Pat.] (v.l. gaḍu or gaḍuka), [Vet. i, 9/10]
m. a relater, narrator (?, ‘one who understands the joints or divisions of time, of the year, &c.’ [fr. granthi cf. kāla-granthi], an astrologer, fortune-teller, [L.]), [MBh. xiv, 2039]; [Pat.] on [Pāṇ. i, 4, 29] and [iii, 1, 26], Vārtt. 15
a kind of disease of the outer ear, [Suśr.]
a kind of plant or substance, [Car. vi, 18]
a N. assumed by Nakula (when master of the horse to king Virāṭa), [MBh. iv, 63] and [319]
= saha-deva, [L.]
m. n. Capparis aphylla, [L.]
a kind of resin, bdellium, [L.]
n. = °nthīka, pepper, [Suśr. iv, 37, 35]; [vi, 42, 23]
m. N. of several plants and roots (Flacourtia sapida, Capparis aphylla, Amaranthus polygonoides, Asteracantha longifolia, Cocculus cordifolius, hitāvalī), [L.]