This is a Sanskrit word. The Sanskrit meaning of "Gruha" is house. And the word Grihastha symbolises a person who runs a house.
Usage
This word is generally used to denote a particular phase of life( next 40 years {20-60 years of human life span} after Brahmacharya ). This is the phase of life in which a man gets married and settles down in life and begets children. It is the second in the four phases of a man, namely, Brahmacharya, Grihastha, Vanaprastha , and finally Sanyasa, as prescribed by Manusmriti for the Dhwija castes, in the Hindu system of life.
The first quarter of one's life, brahmacharya (literally "grazing in Brahma") is spent in celibate, sober and pure contemplation of life's secrets under a Guru, building up body and mind for the responsibilities of life.
Grihastya is the householder's stage, alternatively known as samsara, in which one marries and satisfies kama and artha within a married life and professional career.
Vanaprastha is gradual detachment from the material world, ostensibly giving over duties to one's sons and daughters, spending more time in contemplation of the truth, and making holy pilgrimages.
From one vantage point in the Hamburger Banhoff gallery, one could count 11 such beds.
Testimonies to India's gift for object veneration, they document the movement of life from grihastya to sanyaas.
As empty spaces, they carry an impress of the pure sterility imparted by death — the sense of the ascetic and the pure that comes with too many washings of the same white sheet.
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