Gantha
					
					Gantha,(in BB often misspelt gandha) [fr.ganthati]--1.a bond,fetter,trammel; always fig.and usually referring to and enumd as the four bodily ties,or knots (kāya°,see under kāya):S.V,59=Dhs.1135; D.III,230; Nd1 98; DhA.III,276; 4 kāyaganthā,viz.,abhijjhā,byāpāda,sīlabbataparāmasa,idaṁsaccâbhinivesa; thus Nd1 98; Vism.683.In other conn.Sn.347,798,847,857,912; Nd2 on jappā (taṇhā); Dh.211; Ps.I,129; Dhs.1059,1472; Vbh.18,24,55,65,77,117,120; Nett 31,54,114,124 (gandha); Sdhp.616.-- chinna° (adj.) one who has cut the ties (of bad desires,binding him to the body).Combn w.anigha nirāsa S.I,12 (°gandha),23; w.asita anāsava Sn.219.Cp.pahīnamānassa na santi ganthā S.I,14.See also ādāna°; cp.ganthaniya.-- 2.[only in late Pali,and in Sk.] composition,text,book (not with ref.to books as tied together,but to books as composed,put together.See gantheti 2).
  --dhura the burden of the books,i.e.of studying the Scriptures,expld as one who knows by heart one,two,or all Nikāyas.Always combd w.vipassanādhuraṁ,the burden of contemplation DhA.I,8; IV,37; --pamocana the state of being released from,freed from the fetters of the “body” always w.ref.to Nibbāna S.I,210; A.II,24; It.104,cp.122; --pahīna (adj.) connected with or referring to the ganthas Dhs.1480; opp.vi° Dhs.1482.(Page 243)