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Katha or Biswa (also spelled kattha or cottah; Hindi: कट्ठा, Assamese: কঠা, Bengali: কাঠা) is a unit of area mostly used for land measurement in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. After metrication in the mid-20th century by these countries, the unit became officially obsolete.
Palm-leaf manuscript containing bi-lingual Atthakatha, with Pali text and Sinhalese translation. Sri Lanka, 1756. British Library. Aṭṭhakathā (Pali for explanation, commentary) [1] refers to Pali-language Theravadin Buddhist commentaries to the canonical Theravadin Tipitaka.
The smallest unit was known as "Paramaanuwa", which was equal to 3.306 × 10 −11 m (1.302 × 10 −9 in). A typical span was taken roughly equal to 22.86 cm (9 in). These small units of measurement were used in making of statues and buildings. Following are the relationships between the units used in ancient times. [6] [7]
Katha (or Kathya) is an Indian style of religious storytelling, performances of which are a ritual event in Hinduism. It often involves priest -narrators ( kathavachak or vyas ) who recite stories from Hindu religious texts , such as the Puranas , the Ramayana or Bhagavata Purana , followed by a commentary ( Pravachan ).
Katha Upanishad, a Hindu sacred text; Katha (unit), a unit of measurement, largely obsolete in India and Bangladesh but still used in Nepal; Katha, a genus of tiger moths; Catechu, an extract of acacia, called katha in Hindi; Katha (NGO), a non-profit and non-governmental organisation based in Delhi Katha Books, a publishing house owned by ...
The largest part of Sri Lankan literature was written in the Sinhala language, but there is a considerable number of works in other languages used in Sri Lanka over the millennia (including Tamil, Pāli, and English). However, the languages used in ancient times were very different from the language used in Sri Lanka now.
N. M. Penzer (1924-28), The ocean of story, being C. H. Tawney's translation of Somadeva's Katha sarit sagara (or Ocean of streams of story), 10 vols Vol I, Vol II, Vol III, Vol IV, Vol V, Vol VI, Vol VII, Vol VIII, Vol IX, Vol X at the Internet Archive. Based on Tawney's translation, but greatly expanded, with additional notes and remarks ...
Apē Gama (Sinhala:අපේ ගම, Tamil:எங்கள் கிராமம்) (lit.Our Village) [1] is a semi-autobiographical book by Sri Lankan author Martin Wickramasinghe detailing the narrator's experiences as a child in Southern Province, Sri Lanka.