गाथ [ gātha ] [ gāthá ] m. a song Lit. RV. i , 167 , 6 and ix , 11 , 4 Lit. SV.

  [ gāthā ] f. id. Lit. RV.

  a verse , stanza (especially one which is neither Ṛic , 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 Lit. Suparṇ.) Lit. AV. Lit. TS. Lit. TBr. Lit. ŚBr.

  the metrical part of a Sūtra Lit. Buddh.

  N. of the Āryā metre

  any metre not enumerated in the regular treatises on prosody ( cf. [ ṛg-gāthā ] , [ riju-gātha ] , [ yajña-gāthā ] .)