We have investigated the magnetic behavior of the nano crystals, synthesized by highenergy ball-milling, for a well-known geometrically frustrated spin-chain system, Ca 3 CoRhO 6 , and compared its magnetic characteristics with those of the bulk form by measuring ac and dc magnetization. The features attributable to the onset of 'partially disordered antiferromagnetism' (characterizing the bulk form) are not seen in the magnetization data of the nano particles; the magnetic moment at high fields in the very low temperature range in the magnetically ordered state gets relatively enhanced in the nano particles. It appears that the ferromagnetic intrachain interaction, judged by the sign of paramagnetic Curie temperature, is preserved in the nano particles. These trends are opposite to those seen in the nano particles of Ca 3 Co 2 O 6 . However, the complex spindynamics as evidenced by large frequency dependence of ac susceptibility is retained in the nano particles as well. Thus, there are some similarities and dissimilarities between the properties of the nano particles and those of the bulk. We believe that these findings would be useful to understand correlation lengths deciding various properties of geometrical frustration and/or spin-chain phenomena. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. This compound exhibits one magnetic transition near (T 1 =) 90 K and the other near (T 2 =) 30 K. On the basis of neutron diffraction studies [4], it was inferred that, in the temperature (T) range between T 1 and T 2 , partially disordered antiferromagnetism (PDA) occurs in which two out of three ferromagnetic chains are antiferromagnetically coupled while the third one does not order magnetically; at T 2 , the incoherent chain freezes with a yet-to-be understood complex spin-dynamics as evidenced [6] by a huge frequency dependence of ac susceptibility (χ). It has been proposed [4] that this compound can be an example for non-equilibrium one-dimensional Ising model. There was a controversy [5,9] surrounding valence and spin states of Co (occupying distorted trigonal prismatic coordination site) and Rh (occupying distorted octahedral site). It is now established [11, 13, and 14] that Co is in the divalent, high-spin d 7 spin configuration, and Rh is in the tetravalent, low-spin d 5 configuration. Thus, the metallic ions at both these sites are magnetic. While this situation is different from that of Ca 3 Co 2 O 6 (in which Co at both the sites are trivalent with one site being non-magnetic), the properties of both the compounds are similar in many ways [8]. Interestingly, a giant orbital moment has been found [13,14] in the compound under investigation. This compound is also characterized by large thermoelectric power, offering a new route for the search for thermoelectric materials [7]. The magnetic properties of this compound have been found to be insensitive to applications of positive and negative pressure [16], though a small disturbance of Ca site appears to disfavor PDA formation. Recently, i...