ग्रन्थिक

{ granthikḥ, granthika }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

GRANTHIKA   Name assumed by Nakula during his life incognito at the Virāṭa palace. [Virāṭa Parva, Chapter 3, Verse 4] .

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

ग्रन्थिक  m.  m. a relater, narrator (?, ‘one who understands the joints or divisions of time, of the year, &c.’ [fr. ग्रन्थि cf. काल-ग्रन्थि], an astrologer, fortune-teller, [L.]), [MBh. xiv, 2039]; [Pat.] on [Pāṇ. 1-4, 29 and 3-1, 26], Vārtt. 15
a kind of disease of the outer ear, [Suśr.]
a kind of plant or substance, [Car. vi, 18]
a N. assumed by नकुल (when master of the horse to king विराट), [MBh. iv, 63 and 319]
सह-देव   = , [L.]

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सह देव

ग्रन्थिक  mn.  mn. Capparis aphylla, [L.]
a kind of resin, bdellium, [L.]
ग्रन्थिक  n.  n. = °न्थीक, pepper, [Suśr. iv, 37, 35; vi, 42, 23]
°न्थिपर्णक   = , [L.]
a kind of disease of women, [Gal.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

ग्रन्थिकः [granthikḥ]   1 An astrologer, a fortuneteller; ग्रन्थिकस्तु करीरे स्याद्दैवज्ञे गुग्गुलुद्रुमे' इति विश्वलोचनः; [Mb.14.7.7.]
The name assumed by Nakula when at the palace of Virāṭa.
A kind of disease of the outer ear.
A Bamboo-shoot; L. D. B.
कम् The plant Piper longum (Mar. गांठी पिंपळमूळ).
The gum-resin (गुग्गुलु).

Shabda-Sagara

ग्रन्थिक  m.  ( -कः)
1. An astrologer, a fortune teller.
2. The youngest of the Pandus.
3. A thorny plant: see करीर.
 n.  ( -कं)
1. The root of long pepper.
2. A kind of resin, Bdellium.
3. A perfume: see ग्रन्थि- पर्ण.
E. कन् added to the preceding, or ग्रन्थ a book, &c. and ठन् aff.

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कन् ग्रन्थ ठन्