a verse, stanza (especially one which is neither Ṛc, 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 [Suparṇ.]), [AV.]; [TS.]; [TBr.]; [ŚBr.] &c.
the metrical part of a Sūtra, [Buddh.]
N. of the Āryā metre
any metre not enumerated in the regular treatises on prosody (cf. ṛg-gāthā, ṛju-gātha, yajña-gāthā.)