gaṇá as, m. a flock, troop, multitude, number, tribe, series, class (of animate or inanimate beings), body of followers or attendants, [RV.]; [AV.] &c.
troops or classes of inferior deities (especially certain troops of demi-gods considered as Śiva's attendants and under the special superintendence of the god Gaṇeśa; cf. -devatā), [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [Lalit.] &c.
a single attendant of Śiva, [VarBṛS.]; [Kathās.]; [Rājat. iii, 270]
N. of Gaṇeśa, [W.]
a company, any assemblage or association of men formed for the attainment of the same aims, [Mn.]; [Yājñ.]; [Hit.]
the 9 assemblies of Ṛṣis under the Arhat Mahā-vīra, [Jain.]
a sect in philosophy or religion, [W.]
a small body of troops (= 3 Gulmas or 27 chariots and as many elephants, 81 horses, and 135 foot), [MBh. i, 291]
a series or group of asterisms or lunar mansions classed under three heads (that of the gods, that of the men, and that of the Rākṣasas), [W.]
(in arithm.) a number, [L.]
(in metre) a foot or four instants (cf. -cchandas)
(in Gr.) a series of roots or words following the same rule and called after the first word of the series (e.g. ad-ādi, the g. ad &c. or the whole series of roots of the 2nd class; gargādi, the g. garga &c. or the series of words commencing with garga)
a particular group of Sāmans, [Lāṭy. i, 6, 5]; [VarYogay. viii, 7]
a kind of perfume, [L.]
= vāc (i.e. ‘a series of verses’), [Naigh. i, 11]
N. of an author