This word belongs to the Avestan language from the old Indo-Iranian language group, which was used to write the Gathas in Kurdish Gwet, meaning "spoken" or "the spoken words".
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versified portions of Pali canon (Tipitaka) of Theravada Buddhism are also called specifically as gathas.
The hymns of Zoroaster usually called the Gathas : for the first time made entirely accessible by transliterated text, translation, dictionary and grammar, introductory tables, analysis, higher and Biblical criticism, complete concordance and subject index, by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie.