Gatha

American  

[gah-tuh, -tah] / ˈgɑ tə, -tɑ /

noun

Zoroastrianism.

1. one of several groups of hymns the Gathas forming the oldest part of the Avesta.

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Gatha British  

/ ˈɡɑːtə /

noun

1. Zoroastrianism any of a number of versified sermons in the Avesta that are in a more ancient dialect than the rest

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Etymology

Origin of Gatha

< Avestan gāthā-; cognate with Sanskrit gāthā song

Example Sentences

“Being a ranger is about protecting our own country,” said Gatha Pura Munnunggurr, 28.

From New York Times

The following year, he was featured in an episode of PBS’s Black Journal, and on Saturday, he was introduced to sustained applause by Gatha “Gate” Artis, who’s been clocking horses at New Jersey’s Monmouth Park for 46 years.

From The Guardian

Six young girls in white, known as the jayamangala gatha, come to bless the marriage, one playing the violin while others sing.

From BBC

In the third hymn of the first Gatha he solemnly brings forward his doctrine before the people, and appeals to them, not as a people, but as individuals, each for himself, with a full sense of his responsibility, to consider it, and adopt it, and act upon it.

From Project Gutenberg

The more reasonable conjecture appears to be that the Gâthâ is the production of bards who were contemporaries or immediate successors of Sâkya, who recounted to the devout congregations of the prophet of Magadha, the sayings and doings of their great teacher in popular and easy-flowing verses, which in course of time came to be regarded as the most authentic source of all information connected with the founder of Buddhism.

From Project Gutenberg