katha
- noun
- Indian
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katha
- Every evening, the devotees would come together to chant and engage in katha, learning valuable lessons from sacred texts.
Examples
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Columnist and poet Katha Pollitt has written that we debate the contents of the Western canon because everyone knows that whatever is required in school is all most people will ever read.
Academic text (1999) -
The elderly woman shared a beautiful katha that explained the importance of kindness and generosity in our daily lives.
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When I returned home, I invited Uma Didi to Ireland so that devotees could meet her, serve her, and hear her wonderful hari katha.
Blog text (15) -
As disheartening as it may be, if a guru cannot bring himself to sit and hear Srimad Bhagavatam classes given by other Vaisnavas in good standing, he has apparently lost some of his taste for Krishna katha.
Blog text (12) -
During the festival, the children gathered to listen to the enchanting katha about the life of Lord Krishna.
How Religious
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word katha comes from the Sanskrit word kathā, which means 'story' or 'talk', and it has kept that sense in many South Asian languages. So a katha is a religious or moral story told to teach people.