m. an artificial arrangement of words (especially of 32 syllables equalsśloka-), verse, composition, treatise, literary production, book in prose or verse, text (opposed to artha-"meaning" ) etc.
n. (in fine compositi or 'at the end of a compound') stringing, tying or connecting together (as a chapter or book), arranging, composing Va1rtt. 15 (varia lectiogaḍu-or gaḍuka-)
f.idem or 'n. (in fine compositi or 'at the end of a compound') stringing, tying or connecting together (as a chapter or book), arranging, composing Va1rtt. 15 (varia lectiogaḍu-or gaḍuka-) '
ग्रन्थः [ग्रन्थ् संदर्भे भावे घञ्] 1 Binding, stringing together (fig. also). -2 A work, treatise, composition, literary production, book; ग्रन्थारम्भे, ग्रन्थकृत्, ग्रन्थसमाप्ति &c. -3 Wealth, property. -4 A verse consisting of 32 syllables, written in the Anuṣṭubh metre. -Comp. -कर्तृ, m. -कारः -कृत् m. a writer, an author; ग्रन्थारम्भे समुचितेष्टदे- वतां ग्रन्थकृत्परामृशति K. P.1. -कुटी, -कूटी 1 a library. -2 a studio. -विस्तरः, विस्तारः voluminousness, diffuse style; Bṛi S.1.2. -संधिः a section or chapter of a work; (for the several names by which sections, or chapters of works in Sanskṛit, are called, see under अध्याय).
noun (masculine) granthĄ (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a knot (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a section (of) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
binding (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
book in prose or verse (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
composition (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
literary production (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
property (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
stringing together (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
text (opposed to artha "meaning") (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the book or sacred scriptures of the Sikhs containing short moral poems by Nānak Shāh and others (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
treatise (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
tying (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
verse (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
wealth (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
adjective a fool (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a gambler (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a saint who has withdrawn from the world and lives either as a hermit or a religious mendicant wandering about naked (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
free from all ties or hindrances (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
idiot (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
manslaughter (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
murder (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
poor (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
without possessions (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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