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.)
m. crookedness (lit. and fig.), [L.]