गाथा

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬. The same PII root *gaH- gave the Sanskrit verb.

Noun

 * 1) verse, stanza (especially one which is neither, nor , nor , a verse not belonging to the Vedas, but to the epic poetry of legends or s, such as the Śunaḥśepa-ākhyāna or the Suparṇādhyāya)
 * 2) the metrical part of a sūtra
 * 3) name of the āryā metre
 * 4) any metre not enumerated in the regular treatises on prosody (compare, , )