grantha

1. grath or granth cl. 9. P. grathnāti ( 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 ?]

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.

the book or sacred scriptures of the Sikhs containing short moral poems by Nānak Ṣāh and others ( cf. RTL. pp. 158 - 177 )

wealth, property, Jain. , Sch. ( cf. uttara, nir, ṣaḍ.)

2. grath or granth cl. 1. Ā. grathate or granth, to be crooked ( lit. and fig. ), Dhātup. ii, 35.