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Matha vs Matra - What's the difference?

matha | matra |

As nouns the difference between matha and matra

is that matha is a monastic or similar religious establishment in hinduism and jainism, usually more formal and hierarchical than an ashram while matra is (music) a term in indian music referring to the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala.

matha

English

(wikipedia matha)

Alternative forms

* math * mutt

Noun

(en noun)
  • A monastic or similar religious establishment in Hinduism and Jainism, usually more formal and hierarchical than an ashram.

    • matra

    English

    Noun

    (matras)
  • (music) A term in Indian music referring to the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala
  • A term in Indian poetics and linguistics for the measure of the length of a syllable; equivalent to mora
  • The characteristic horizontal line drawn above characters in the Devanagari script
  • An intra-syllabic vowel symbol in Indic scripts

    • See also

    * laya * tala

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