Guest guest Posted May 22, 2003 Report Share Posted May 22, 2003 Can someone enlighten me on the difference between shloka and strotra? adiyen, Narayanan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 22, 2003 Report Share Posted May 22, 2003 Dear SrI Narayanan: At 05:51 AM 5/22/03 -0000, you wrote: >Can someone enlighten me on the difference between shloka and >strotra? >adiyen, >Narayanan ShlOkam is an individual verse in Sanskrit set to particular metre. SthOthram is a group of verses in praise usually of a God or Goddess or an AchAryan. Many of them are composed by AchAryAs or great poets. If this sthOthram has 8 verses , it is an octet with the Sanskrit name of Ashtakam. The twenty verse containing sthOthram is called Vimsathi. The one with fifty verses is known as PanchAsath. The one with 100 sthuthi slOkams ( eulogies) is known as Sathakam . The longest SthOthram has 1000 SlOkams and is known as Sahasram. Some examples of these sthOthrams are: 1.SrI Sudarsana Ashtakam about Lord Sudarsanar 2.YathirAja Vimsathy about AchArya RaamAnujA ; Gopala Vimsathy is about SrI Raaja veNu GopAlan. 3.VaradarAja PanchAsath about Lord VaradarAja of Kaanchipuram 4.Achyutha sathakam about Lord DevanAthan of ThiruvahIndhrapuram , a dhivya dEsam near Cuddalore. 5. Lakshmi Sahsaram about Goddess SrI Devi. V.Sadagopan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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