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Entry ग्रह्

ग्रह्grahTo cause to take, catch, seize or accept.
1. To cause to take, catch, seize or accept.
2. To give away in marriage; अयाचितारं न हि देवदेवमद्रिः सुतां ग्राहयितुं शशाक Ku.1.52.
3. To teach, make one acquainted with.
4. To make one take, deliver over to.
5. To become familiar with; -With अनुसम् to salute humbly.
Derived forms and compounds
- -अप to take away, tear off.
- -अभि to seize forcibly. -II. 1 Parasmaipada, 1 Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada) (ग्रहति, ग्राहयति-ते) To take, receive, etc.
- ग्रह् grah
  
  9 Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada) (In Vedic literature ग्रभ्; गृह्णति, जग्राह, अग्र- हीत्, ग्रहीतुम्, गृहीत caus. ग्राहयति; Desiderative जिवृक्षति)
  
  To seize, take, take or catch hold of, lay hold of, catch, grasp; तयोर्जग्रहतुः पादान् राजा राज्ञी च मागधी R.1.57; आलाने गृह्यते हस्ती वाजी वल्गासु गृह्यते Mk.1.5; तं कण्ठे जग्राह K.363. पाणिं गृहीत्वा, चरणं गृहीत्वा etc.
  
  To receive, take, accept, exact; प्रजानामेव भूत्यर्थं स ताभ्यो बलिमग्रहीत् R.1.18; Ms.7.124; 9.162.
  
  To apprehend, capture, take prisoner. बन्दिग्राहं गृहीत्वा V.1; यांस्तत्र चोरान् गृह्णीयात् Ms.8.34. -4 To arrest, stop, catch; अभ्यासेन तु कौन्तेय वैराग्येण च गृह्यते Bg.6.35.
  
  To captivate, attract; महाराजगृहीत- हृदयया मया V.4; हृदये गृह्यते नारी Mk.1.5; माधुर्यमीष्टे हरिणान् ग्रहीतुम् R.18.13.
  
  To win over, persuade, induce to one's side; लुब्धमर्थेन गृह्णीयात् Chāṇ.33; Pt.1.69,184.
  
  (Hence) To please, gratify, satisfy, propitiate; ग्रहीतुमार्यान् परिचर्यया मुहुर्महानुभावा हि नितान्तमर्थिनः Śi.1.17,33.
  
  To affect; seize or possess (as a demon, spirit etc.); as in पिशाचगृहीत, वेतालगृहीत.
  
  To assume, take; द्युतिमग्रहीद् ग्रहगणः Śi.9.23; Bk.19.29.
  
  To learn, know, recognize, understand; युवतीजनैर्जग्रहे मुनि- प्रभावः Ki.1.8; Pt.1.43.
  
  To regard, consider, believe, take for; मयापि मृत्पिण्डबुद्धिना तथैव गृहीतम् Ś.6; परिहासविजल्पितं सखे परमार्थेन न गृह्यतां वचः Ś.2.19; एवं जनो गृह्णाति M.1; Mu.3.
  
  To catch or perceive (as by an organ of sense); ज्यानिनादमथ गृह्णती तयोः R.11.15.
  
  To master, grasp, comprehend; न्यस्ताक्षरामक्षरभूमि- कायां कार्त्स्न्येन गृह्णाति लिपिं न यावत् R.18.46.
  
  To guess, conjecture, infer; नेत्रवक्त्रविकारैश्च गृह्यतेऽन्तर्गतं मनः Ms.8.26.
  
  To utter, mention (as a name); यदि मयान्यस्य नामापि न गृहितम् K.35; न तु नामापि गृह्णीयात् पत्यौ प्रेते परस्य तु Ms.5.157.
  
  To buy, purchase; कियता मूल्येनैतत्पुस्तकं गृहीतम् Pt.2; Y.2.169; Ms.8.21.
  
  To deprive (one) of, take away from, rob or seize away; यथा रणे प्राणान् बहूनामग्रहीद् द्विषाम् Bk.9.9;15.63.
  
  To wear, put on (as clothes etc.); वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि Bg.2.22.
  
  To conceive.
  
  To observe (as a fast).
  
  To eclipse.
  
  To undertake, undergo, begin.
  
  To take up, draw (water.); अपस्फुरं गृभायत सोममिन्द्राय पातवे Rv.8.69.1.
  
  To stop, intercept.
  
  To withdraw, draw back; यथोर्ण- नाभिः सृजते गृह्णते Muṇḍa.1.7.
  
  To include.
  
  To receive hospitably (as a guest). [The senses of this root may be variously modified according to the noun with which it is joined]. -Causal
In the Gita9·19

तपाम्यहमहं वर्षं निगृह्णाम्युत्सृजामि च ।

tapāmyahamahaṁ varṣaṁ nigṛhṇāmyutsṛjāmi ca, — I give heat, I withhold and send forth the rain; immortality and also death, existent and non-existent am I, O Arjuna. 9·19
- निगृह्णामिnigṛhṇāmipresent 1st person singular of the verbal root grah (to seize, take) with the prefix ni (to withold or hold back).
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