grā́ma m. an inhabited place, village, hamlet, [RV. i], [x]; [AV.]; [VS.] &c.;
the collective inhabitants of a place, community, race, [RV. x, 146, 1]; [AV.] &c.
any number of men associated together, multitude, troop (esp. of soldiers), [RV. i], [iii], [x]; [AV. iv, 7, 5]; [ŚBr. vi], [xii]
the old women of a family, [PārGṛ. i, 9, 3], Sch.
ifc. (cf. [Pāṇ. vi, 2, 84]) a multitude, class, collection or number (in general) cf. indriya-, guṇa-, bhūta-, &c.
a number of tones, scale, gamut, [Pañcat. v, 43]; [MārkP. xxiii, 52]
= indriya-, [Jain.]
inhabitants, people, [RV. ii, 12, 7]; [x, 127, 5]
grā́ma n. a village, [R. ii, 57, 4]; [Hcat. i, 7, 721/722]
[cf. ariṣṭa-, mahā-, śūra-, saṃ-; cf. Hib. gramaisg, ‘the mob’; gramasgar, ‘a flock’.]