Sanskrit

Alternative forms

• गाथा ‎(gāthā́)

Noun

गाथ • ‎(gāthá) m

1. song
   • RV 1.167.6d

     आस्थापयन्त युवतिं युवानः शुभे निमिष्लां विदथेषुपज्राम |

     अर्को यद वो मरुतो हविष्मान गायद गाथं सुतसोमो दुवस्यन ||

     āsthāpayanta yuvatiṃ yuvānaḥ śubhe nimiṣlāṃ vidatheṣupajrām |

     arko yad vo maruto haviṣmān ghāyad ghāthaṃ 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.

   • RV 9.11.4c

     बभ्रवे नु सवतवसे ऽरुणाय दिविस्प्र्शे |

     सोमाय गाथम अर्चत ||

     babhrave nu svatavase 'ruṇāya divispṛśe |

     somāya ghātham arcata ||

     Sing a praise-song to Soma brown of hue, of independent might.

     The Red, who reaches up to heaven.

Declension

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 0352