गाथ

• गाथा (gāthā́)

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *gaHtʰás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gaHtʰás. Cognate with Avestan 𐬔𐬁𐬚𐬁 (gāθā, “form of strophe, metre, namely the collections of Zarathustra's songs”). The same PII root *gaH- gave गायति (gā́yati, “to sing”).

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɡɑː.tʰɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑː.t̪ʰɐ/

गाथ • (gāthá) stem, m

1. song
   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 1.167.6:

     आस्थापयन्त युवतिं युवानः शुभे निमिश्लां विदथेषु पज्राम् ।
     अर्को यद्वो मरुतो हविष्मान्गायद्गाथं सुतसोमो दुवस्यन् ॥

     āsthāpayanta yuvatiṃ yuvānaḥ śubhe nimiślāṃ vidatheṣu pajrām.
     arko yadvo maruto haviṣmāngāyadgāthaṃ sutasomo duvasyan.

     Upon their car the young men set the Maiden wedded to glory, mighty in assemblies,
     When your song, Maruts, rose, and, with oblation, the Soma-pourer sang his hymn in worship.

   • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 9.11.4:

     बभ्रवे नु स्वतवसेऽरुणाय दिविस्पृशे ।
     सोमाय गाथमर्चत ॥

     babhrave nu svatavaseʼruṇāya divispṛśe.
     somāya gāthamarcata.

     Sing a praise-song to Soma brown of hue, of independent might.
     The Red, who reaches up to heaven.

• Monier Williams (1899) “गाथ”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0352.