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गाथा (gAthA)

 
शब्दसागरः
English
गाथा
f.
 (-थां)
1. A verse, a stanza.
2. Metre, rhythm.
3. A song, a chant
or verse to be chanted or sung.
4. Prakrita or any language not
Sanskrit.
5. The same as the Aryya Metre, in which the verse con-
tains sixty syllabic instants, variously arranged.
E.
 गै to sing, थन्
Unadi
aff.
Yates
English
गाथा (था) 1.
f.
 A verse, metre, song.
Wilson
English
गाथा
f.
 (-था)
1 A verse, a stanza.
2 Metre, rhythm.
3 A song, a chaunt or verse to be chaunted or sung.
4 Prākṛta or any language not Sanscrit.
6 The same as the Arya Metre, in which the verse contains sixty syllabic
instants, variously arranged.
E.
 गै to sing, थन् Uṇādi
aff.
Apte
English
गाथा [gāthā], 1 Verse.
A religious verse, but not belonging to any one of the Vedas.
A stanza.
A song
कदा वाहेयिका गाथाः पुनर्गास्यामि शाकले
Mb.
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A Prākṛita dialect.
N.
 of the Aryā metre.
Legend, history (आख्यान)
द्विजोपसृष्टः कुहकस्तक्षको वा दशत्वलं गायत विष्णुगाथाः
Bhāg.*
 1.19.15.
Comp.
 -कारः a writer of Prākṛita verses. -नाराशंसी epic songs and particularly those in praise of men or heroes.
Apte 1890
English
गाथा 1 Verse.
2 A religious verse, but not belonging to any one of the Vedas.
3 A stanza.
4 A song.
5 A Prākṛta dialect.
6 N. of the Aryā metre.
Comp.
कारः a writer of Prākṛta verses.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
गा॑था a
f.
 id.,
RV.
a verse, stanza (especially one which is neither Ṛc, nor Sāman, nor Yajus, a verse not belonging to the Vedas, but to the epic poetry of legends or Ākhyānas, such as the Śunaḥśepa-Ākhyāna or the
Suparṇ.
 ),
AV.
TS.
TBr.
ŚBr.
&c.
the metrical part of a Sūtra,
Buddh.
N.
 of the Āryā metre
any metre not enumerated in the regular treatises on prosody (cf. ऋग्-गाथा, रिजु-गाथ, यज्ञ-गाथा.)
गाथा b
f.
 of °थ॑, q.v.
गा॑था c See 3. गा.
Macdonell
English
गाथा gā́-thā,
f.
 hymn, verse
specifically 🞄non-Vedic verse (in ritual works)
versified 🞄portion of Buddhistic sūtras
a metre (= āryā).
Benfey
English
गाथा गाथा, i. e. गै + थ,
f.
 A
song, a verse, Indr. 2, 28
Man. 9, 42.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
गाथा
स्त्री*
 - गाथ - टाप्
छन्द
गाथा
स्त्री*
 - -
धार्मिक श्लोक या छन्द जो वेदों से संबंध न रखता हो
गाथा
स्त्री*
 - -
"श्लोक, गीत"
गाथा
स्त्री*
 - -
एक प्राकृत बोली
Shabdartha Kaustubha
Kannada
गाथा
पदविभागः - > स्त्रीलिङ्गः
कन्नडार्थः - > ಶ್ಲೋಕ /ಪದ್ಯ
गाथा
पदविभागः - > स्त्रीलिङ्गः
कन्नडार्थः - > ಪ್ರಾಕೃತ ಮೊದಲಾದ ಭಾಷೆ
गाथा
पदविभागः - > स्त्रीलिङ्गः
कन्नडार्थः - > ಆರ್ಯಾವೃತ್ತದ ಒಂದು ಭೇದ
प्रयोगाः - > "पादे द्वादश विषमे मात्राः अष्टादश द्वितीये हि । पञ्चदश चेत् तुरीये कथिता गाथा तथैवार्या ॥"
उल्लेखाः - > छान्दोमं०
गाथा
पदविभागः - > स्त्रीलिङ्गः
कन्नडार्थः - > ಗಾನ /ಹಾಡು
विस्तारः - > "गाथा श्लोके संस्कृतान्यभाषायां गेयवृत्तयोः" - मेदि० ।
L R Vaidya
English
gATA {% f. %} 1. A verse
2. verse, which, though religious, does not belong to any of the Vedas
3. a prākṛit dialect.
Bopp
Latin
गाथा f. (r. गै canere, s. था) cantus. IN. 2. 28. N. 24. 27.
Wordnet
Sanskrit
Synonyms:
 गाथा
noun
लघुषु पद्येषु सरलतया विस्तारपूर्वकं कथितं प्रभावोत्पादिका कथा यस्यां प्रायः सत्यानां घटनानां वर्णनम् अस्ति।
"आल्हा इति एका वीरस्य गाथा अस्ति।"
Synonyms:
 श्लोकः, गाथा, रूपम्
noun
काव्यस्य अक्षरसङ्ख्यातः अर्थपूर्णविभागः।
"सीता स्वरचितस्य काव्यस्य एकं श्लोकं अश्रावयत्।/ शोकार्तस्य मे श्लोको भवतु नान्यथा।"
Sanskrit Tibetan
Tibetan
tshigs su bcad pa
गाथा
Vedic Reference
English
Gāthā in the Rigveda^1 usually means only ‘song, ’ ‘verse, ’
like Gātu.^2 In one passage, ^3 however, it already has a more
special sense, as it is classed with Nārāśaṃsī and Raibhī, a
collocation repeatedly found later.^4 The commentators identify
the three terms with certain verses of the Atharvaveda, ^5 but
Oldenberg^6 has shown that this identification is incorrect for
the Rigveda. Gāthās are often mentioned elsewhere, ^7 and are
referred to as metrical in the Aitareya Āraṇyaka, ^8 where the
Ṛc, Kumbyā, and Gāthā are classed as forms of verse. The
Aitareya Brāhmaṇa^9 distinguishes between Ṛc and Gāthā as
divine and human respectively. According to the usage of the
Brāhmaṇas and the liturgical literature, as stated by the St.
Petersburg Dictionary, the Gāthās are, though religious in
content, distinguished from Ṛc, Yajus, and Sāman as non-
Vedic — that is, are not Mantras. This view is consistent with
the fact that the phrase Yajña-gāthā, meaning a verse
summarizing a sacrificial usage, is not rare. The Śatapatha
Brāhmaṇa^10 preserves several Gāthās, which generally accord
with this description as epitomizing the sacrifices of famous
kings, and the Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā^11 states that a Gāthā is
sung at a wedding. Sometimes^12 Gāthā is qualified as
Nārāśaṃsī, where it must be a eulogy of a generous donor.
1) viii. 32, 1
71, 14
98, 9
ix. 99, 4
gātha, i. 167, 6
ix. 11, 4
gātha-pati,
‘lord of song, ’ i. 43, 4
gāthā-nī, ‘lead-
ing a song, ’ i. 190, 1
viii. 92, 2
ṛju-
gātha, ‘singing correctly, ’ v. 44, 5
gāthin, ‘singer, ’ i. 7, 1. Cf. Hopkins,
Journal of the American Oriental Society,
17, 65.
2) i. 151, 2
ii. 20, 5
iii. 4, 4
iv. 4, 6
v. 87, 8
x. 20, 4
122, 2.
3) x. 85, 6.
4) Taittirīya Saṃhitā, vii. 5, 11, 2
Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, Aśvamedha, v. 2
Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, vi. 32
Kauṣītaki
Brāhmaṇa, xxx. 5
Śatapatha Brāh-
maṇa, xi. 5, 6, 8, where Raibhī does
not occur
Gopatha Brāhmaṇa, ii. 6,
12.
5) Viz., Gāthā = Av. xx. 127, 12 et seq.
Nārāśaṃsī = Av. xx. 127, 1-3
Raibhī
= Av. xx. 127, 4-6
while ibid., 7-10,
are known as Pārikṣityaḥ (scil., ṛcaḥ).
6) Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgen-
ländischen Gesellschaft, 42, 238. Bloom-
field, Hymns of the Atharvaveda, 689
et seq., seems to accept the identification
even for the Rigveda.
7) Av. x. 10, 20
xv. 6, 4 (distinct
from Nārāśaṃsī)
Śatapatha Brāh-
maṇa, iii. 2, 4, 16
xi. 5, 7, 10
xiii. 1,
5, 6
4, 2, 8
5, 4, 2
Taittirīya Āraṇ-
yaka, ii. 10 (distinct from Nārāśaṃsī)
Chāndogya Upaniṣad, iv. 17, 9, etc.
8) ii. 3, 6, with Keith's note
Sata-
patha Brāhmaṇa, xi. 5, 7, 10.
9) vii. 18. The story of Śunaḥśepa
is described as śata-gātham, ‘told in a
hundred Gāthās.’
10) xiii. 5, 4, etc., and see xiii. 4, 2, 8,
where the Gāthās are plainly Dānas-
tutis, or ‘praises of gifts, ’ just as the
Nārāśaṃsī verses are declared to be in
the Bṛhaddevatā, iii. 154.
11) iii. 7, 3.
12) Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, i. 3, 2, 6.
So Eggeling, Sacred Books of the East,
44, 98, takes Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, xi. 5,
6, 8, where Sāyaṇa hesitates between
identifying the two and distinguishing
them. It seems reasonable to regard
Gāthā as the wider term which covers,
but is not coextensive with, Nārāśaṃsī.
Cf. Sāyaṇa's example of a Gāthā in
his commentary on Aitareya Āraṇyaka,
ii. 3, 6: prātaḥ prātar anṛtaṃ te vadanti,
‘they every morning tell an untruth, ’
which is clearly not a Nārāśaṃsī.
Cf. Bloomfield, Hymns of the Athar-
vaveda, 689 et seq.
Weber, Episches im
Vedischen Ritual, 4 et seq.
Max Müller,
Ancient Sanskrit Literature, 493.
शब्दकल्पद्रुमः
Sanskrit
गाथा,
स्त्री,
 (गीयते इति । गै गाने + “उषि-कुषिगर्त्तिभ्यस्थन् ।” उणां । २ । ४ । इति थन्स्त्रियां टाप् ।) श्लोकः । (यथा, महाभारते ।३ । ८५ । ३० ।“गाथा च गीतिका चापि तस्य सम्पद्यते नृप ! ॥
”)संस्कृतान्यभाषा । सा तु प्राकृतभाषा । गेयम् ।तच्च गीतम् । (यथा, मनुः । ९ । ४२ ।“अत्र गाथा वायुगीताः कीर्त्तयन्ति पुराविदः ।यथा बीजं न वप्तव्यं पुंसा परपरिग्रहे ॥
”)वृत्तम् । तत्तु अक्षरसंख्यातं पद्यम् । इतिमेदिनी । थे । ६ ॥
Grassman
German
gā́thā, f., Gesang [von gā, singen].
-ayā {652, 1}
{707, 9}
{811, 4}
{911, 6}.
-ābhis {680, 14}.
Burnouf
French
गाथा गाथा
f.
 (गै
sfx. था) chant, stance
chantée, en gén.
Strophe d'hymne védique.
Bd. stance dans un
गेय
qqf. le गेय lui-même [ces stances sont ordint.
attribuées à Śākya-muni]
ouvrage contenant des récits moraux.
Nom d'un patois indien.
Stchoupak
French
गाथा-
f.
 chant, stance
-इका-
f.
 chant (épique)
distique
prâkrit
-इन्- a. qui chante.