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	sloka - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		sloka : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=sloka&ls=a (91 words)

	Vedanta Shastras Library » Rama Rahasya
		The meter (chanda) is Gayatri, and the Deity is Shri Rama.
		Sadashiva is spoken of as the Rishi, Gayatri as the meter, and Shiva-OM-Ramachandra as the Deity.
		Of this, Agastya is the Rishi, Brihati is the meter, and Rama is the Deity.
	www.shastras.com /108upanishads/ramarahasya (2115 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Sloka meter (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The meter (chanda) is Gayatri, and the Deity is Shri Rama.
		Sadashiva is spoken of as the Rishi, Gayatri as the meter, and Shiva-OM-Ramachandra as the Deity.
		Of this, Agastya is the Rishi, Brihati is the meter, and Rama is the Deity.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sloka-meter (178 words)

	Transcript: Sujai Karampuri of Sloka Telecom on WiMax Scene in India
		Sloka Telecom is a two year old company.
		We would like to see it as an Indian company which -- the reason why we came about is because we believe that Indian market and some of the emerging markets in the world, required a telecommunication company, which caters to those markets and we wanted to position ourselves as one of those companies.
		You were listening to Sujai Karampuri, the Founder CEO of Sloka Telecom on 'WiMax in India,' thanks for listening.
	media.podtech.net /media/2007/01/PID_001825/Podtech_b_1616-sujai-karampuri-of-slok.html (1910 words)

	Rama Rahasya Upanishad
		The Rishi is Rama, meter is anushtubh, Ram bija, yam shakti, are recited for the Ishta deity.
		Rishi is Brahma, meter is anushtubh, and deity is Raghava.
		The Rishi of this mantra is Janaka, meter is Gayatri, deity is Sita Bhagavati, shrim is bija, and namah is the shakti.
	www.astrojyoti.com /RamaRahasyaUpanishad.htm (4325 words)

	Indology » Indology » philosophy » [PP]Re: Slokas: What are they? on Sulekha Groups
		Sloka: As Sanskrit (Hindu) poetic form consisting of two lines of 16 syllables exhibiting specific patterns of long and short syllables.
		A hymn or verse of praise, a stanza or verse in general, a stanza in anustubh metre (the most common metre used in Sanskrit consisting for 4 lines of 8 syllables), fame.
		A shloka also spelt sloka) is a form of hindu prayer, verse, phrase, proverb or hymn of praise, usually composed in a specified meter, typically part of stotras.
	www.sulekha.com /groups/postdisplay.aspx?cid=113603&forumid=756949 (934 words)

	Welcome to The Institute of Sikh Studies-->Publications
		The hymn consists of 38 pauris or units, which are not necessarily uniform in size and meter.
		Besides the pauris, there are two slokas, one in the beginning and another at the end.
		This is the beginning sloka or the prologue, and, as is the practice usually followed in some other banis like Sukhmani Sahib, indicates the central theme of the hymn, i.e.
	www.sikhstudies.org /Periodicals.asp?TtlCod=443 (1335 words)

	English of hindi word "sloka" \| www.shabdkosh.com
		In addition to what Mahashakti Dasi said, it is a specific kind of verse used in Sanskrit epic poems, which has a certain meter and structure.
		sloka [diacritic slash over the s] in general sense means 'verse' or 'prayer'.
		For example the Bhagavad-gita has 700 slokas [verses].
	www.shabdkosh.com /node/210 (73 words)

	stotras_meaning7
		Swami Desikan chose the 'dhrithas' chandas as a meter for the 8 verses praising Sudarsana.
		Slokas seven to fifteen describe the doctrines of Sri Vaishnava Theology as revealed by the scriptures and mention specially four qualities of the Lord that He is the Cause of the Universe, the Inner Soul of all things that
		Several slokas from thirty-one onwards are devoted to the ideal life to be led by a Prapanna(Refugee) in the post-Prapatti period.
	www.srivaishnavam.com /stotras/meaning/stotras_meaning7.htm (4204 words)

	Eelavar Networks: History Net (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Krishna-Dvaipayana (also known as Veda Vyasa for his work in synthesizing the Vedas in their present form) is said to be the author of the original 24,000 slokas (verses).
		Sloka meter is characterized by 32 syllables divided into 4 pada or quarter verses of 8 syllables each, written in either 2 or 4 lines.
		The reasons for this war and the human aspects of the story are what make the epic ever fascinating -- its slokas are the mirror whereby we see into our own souls, and the consequences of actions, both gross and subtle, are laid bare for scrutiny.
	www.eelavar.com /eelam/pageview.php?ID=133&SID=1091 (1645 words)

	Vanara, Golangul, Rukshya; Rakshasa; Jatayu, and Sampati civilizations
		revealed her age to be several thousands of years (sloka: 22, 532).
		She introduced herself to be Surpanaka, a Rakshasi (Rakshasa woman) and disclosed her mystique power Kamarupi (ability to tranform from Rakshasa into another form).
		Rama alone killed horses bound to chariots and elephants with arrows (sloka: 13).
	www.angelfire.com /sc3/1010/102.htm (2935 words)

	Glossary
		A poetic meter common in epic poetry and characterized by lines measuring six dactyls each.
		Verse which is not metrical or whose meter is irregular.
		The basic unit or pattern of meter is called the foot.
	fajardo-acosta.com /worldlit/glossary.htm (2799 words)

	Welcome - S'rÃ® Vyuha
		Anushtup (eight syllables per quarter) is its meter.
		Lord Krishna, the son of Devaki, is the Lord being worshiped.
		To assist you in learning to chant the Vishnu Sahasranam, we have provided a complete copy with english transliteration, the meaning of each sloka and an audio presentation.
	www.srivyuha.org /utility/showArticle/?objectID=157 (855 words)

	T Balasaraswati on Bharatanatyam
		Even so, the dancer, who dissolves her identity in rhythm and music, makes her body an instrument, at least for the duration of the dance, for the experience and expression of the spirit.
		I believe that the traditional order of the Bharatanatyam recital viz., Alarippu, Jatiswaram, Sabdam, Varnam, Padam, Tillana and the Sloka is the correct sequence in the practice of this art, which is an artistic yoga for revealing the spiritual through the corporeal.
		At first, mere meter; then, melody and meter; continuing with music, meaning and meter; its expansion in the centerpiece of the varnam; thereafter, music and meaning without meter; in variation of this, melody and meter; in contrast to the pure rhythmical beginning a non metrical song at the end.
	carnatica.net /dance/bharatanatyam1.htm (2869 words)

	Thousand Names of the Supreme
		Lord Krishna, the son of Devaki, is the Lord being worshiped.
		Thus, what is stated in the phala sruti has its authority from those who are worthy of great respect from us, and who have found it fit to comment and elaborate on the advice and information given to us through the phala sruti.
		A brief introduction to the five types of manifestations of the Lord, to which Sri Bhattar refers in his exposition of the significance of the 1000 names of the Lord, is given below.
	www.stephen-knapp.com /thousand_names_of_the_supreme.htm (4292 words)

	SriPedia hamsa_sandesa
		In fact, right from the first sloka, which refers to Janaka-Tanaya, this poem is well and truly devoted to that paragon of the femenine species(Naareenaam UttamAvadhU;) Gods and Goddesses have been and ever will continue to the object of praise by their followers, devotees and votaries.
		Out of them, Sloka 9 which refers to the excellence of Sita Devi,who is compared to a Divya-Ratnam (celestial gem) and sloka 22,which depicts Her state of samadhi (intense concentration) are worthy of being written in letters of Gold.
		In the slokas 23 to 35 in praise of Kanchi's Lord Varadaraja, Rama is made to share Desikan's great infatuation for that Lord"s beauty and grace.
	www.ibiblio.org /sripedia/ebooks/vdesikan/hamsa_sandesa/index.html (1917 words)

	SANSKRIT LITERATURE,
		The bulk of the poetry, especially the epic, is composed in the sloka meter, a development of the Vedic anushtubh stanza of four octosyllabic lines of essentially iambic cadence.
		Numerous other meters, however, usually built up on Vedic prototypes, have become more elaborate than their old originals, and in the main, more artistic and beautiful.
		Classical Sanskrit literature may be divided into epic, lyric, didactic, dramatic, and narrative verses and didactic, dramatic, and narrative prose.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..sa036600.a (1752 words)

	SB-text-147
		Sloka[ SB To write Sanskrit sloka, it requires erudite scholarship.
		It is not that you compose anything and you become a poet.
		So even it is not written to the standard meter, and sometimes there are broken, so still, because there is glorification of the Supreme Lord...
	www.prabhupadavani.org /Bhagavatam/text/147.html (2102 words)

	Secret #3
		The meter in which it is written is called “Gayatri”.
		Ramayana is a battle that has taken place between people of good intellect (maharshis, ordinary mortals, simians etc) and people who are completely ruled by mind listening to its troublesome desires (murderers who murder innocent people just because they feel like doing it!), the demons of Lanka.
		sloka, the story commences and descends to the lowest level.
	madhava.tripod.com /Hanuman/3.htm (802 words)

	Music
		The scoper for experiment is successfully tested in this ballet as the compostion "Aamani vachchi vaali" set in a literary meter known as Khanda Gathi, in ragamalika is presented in misra jaathi Jhampa Taal using an unsual pace (tempo) of Madhayama kaala.
		In effeect the literay metre of Khanda Gathi is converted into musical meter of Chaturasra Gati to make it amenable to the expression of Natya.
		Extraordinary care is taken to compose the music for "Maanishaadha" the first sloka fo Ramayan.
	www.kuchipudi.com /htmlfiles/music8.htm (780 words)

	Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lord Krishna, the son of Devaki, is the Lord being worshiped.
		Thus, what is stated in the phala sruti has its authority from those who are worthy of great respect from us, and who have found it fit to comment and elaborate on the advice and information given to us through the phala sruti.
		A brief introduction to the five types of manifestations of the Lord, to which Sri Bhattar refers in his exposition of the significance of the 1000 names of the Lord, is given below.
	home.comcast.net /~chinnamma/sahasra/sloka00.html (4234 words)

	Encyclopedia
		The bulk of the poetry, especially the epic, is composed in the sloka meter, a development of the Vedic anushtubh stanza of four octosyllabic lines of essentially iambic cadence.
		Numerous other meters, however, usually built up on Vedic prototypes, have become more elaborate than their old originals, and in the main, more artistic and beautiful.
		Classical Sanskrit literature may be divided into epic, lyric, didactic, dramatic, and narrative verses and didactic, dramatic, and narrative prose.
	history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..sa036600.a#FWNE.fw..s... (1743 words)

	Hindu Womens' Universe
		In this case it describes the very difficult and disciplined venpa meter in which the verses were written.
		In fact, it is the shortest form of stanza in the Tamil language.
		In many ways these couplets are similar to the Sanskrit sloka.
	hinduwomen.org /dynamic/modules.php?name=Hncontent&pa=showpage&pid=355 (470 words)

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		GH Sloka A stanza, especially a particular kind of epic meter, also called the Anushtubh, which consists of 4 padas (quarter verses) of 8 syllables each; or it may be 2 lines each containing 16 syllables.
		The Ramayana relates that the first sloka was composed by Valmiki who was moved to such sorrow by seeing the mate of a bird killed by a hunter during the wooing of the pair, that in his grief he developed the spirit of poesy.
		A Sloka is generally formed of verses in half-lines of eight, or in two lines of sixteen syllables each.
	www.theosophy-nw.org /theosnw/ctg/sk-so.htm (6626 words)

	Unit 1 Part 2 : Ancient India : Activity: from the Ramayana
		The epic Indian poem, the Ramayana, consists of 28,000 lines composed in the sloka meter.
		Sloka verses are typically formed using 2 lines of 16 syllables each, for a total of 32 syllables per verse.
		Valmiki, the author of the Ramayana, was the first person to use this type of meter, taking its name from soka, the Sanskrit word for grief.
	www.classzone.com /books/world_lit/page_build.cfm?id=act_humanity&u=1&p=2 (260 words)

	sadagopan.org (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Of All the Kalyana Gunaas of Venkataadhri Sekhara Vibhu, His Dhayaa is the most important one for the uplift of the Chetanaas.The concept of Prapatti and Thiruvenkatamudayaan’s Dhayaa to realize the fruits of that Prapatti is the subject of Venkatanatha Kavi in this "Satakam".
		The structure of this stotram containing 108 slokas (one for each of the Divya Desa Archaa Murthys of Sriman Narayana perhaps) is extraordinarily impressive even by Swami Desikan"s standards of poetic excellence.Our Acharya has used ten plus different meters to compose the ten groups of slokas, each of which house " ten" slokas.
		The above sloka is the last of the first group of ten.
	sadagopan.org /acharyans/sd2.htm (1458 words)

	Sri Garuda Dhandakam Translation and comments
		In this stotram, Swami Desikan covers the FOLLOWING topics to illustrate the glory, power and status of Garuda as one of the foremost Nitya Sooris serving Sriman Narayana in Sri Vaikuntam: 1.Vedas praising Garuda Bhagavan.
		Poetic Structure of this Dhandakam ----------------------------------------------------- In sanskrit poetry, each of the 4 Paadas of a sloka can have 26 letters.If the letters of each Paadas increase to 27,30,33,36(other multiples of 3 beyond 27), then this slokam is recognized as a Dhandakam.
		SRI GARUDA DHANDAKAM ********************************* * Srimathe Nigamantha Maha Desikaaya Nama: Sriman Venkatanaatharya: kavithaarkika Kesaree I Vedanthaacharya Varyome Sannidhattaam sadha Hrudhi II Sloka 1 ----------- Nama: pannaganaddhaaya vaikunta vasavardhineh I Srutisindhu Sudhotpaadamandaraaya Garutmathe II My salutations to Garuda with the beautiful wings.His limbs are adorned by the mighty serpents, that he has conquered in battle.
	www.ramanuja.org /sv/bhakti/archives/nov95/0035.html (921 words)

	The Hindu : Entertainment Chennai / Music : How sound and meter are inseparable
		Janakiraman in his erudite lec-dem on Sruthi, swaras and ragas, held under the auspices of Alapana, Coimbatore, said that music of any kind should be capable of being translated into swaras that form the base of a raa.
		Sound and meter are inseparable and complementary to each other.
		Beginning his exposition with an invocatory sloka, Prof.
	www.hindu.com /fr/2005/05/27/stories/2005052701090200.htm (354 words)

	Rupanuga Vedic College -
		AVC includes study of basic Vaisnava texts, such as Bhagavad-gita and Srimad Bhagavatam, and the learning of slokas (verses), Vaisnava etiquette and standard devotional practices.
		Students also receive experience in performance of public harinama (congregational chanting), literature distribution and guidance in explaining their realizations to others.
		The sloka class is good refreshment for new bhaktas during a long japa period.
	www.rvc.edu /avc.html (931 words)

	Valmiki Ramayana
		This site aims to study various versions of Srimad Valmiki Ramayana and arrive at a version of Ramayana that is most relevant to modern times.
		Srimad Valmiki Ramayana is composed of verses called Sloka, in Sanskrit language, which is an ancient language from India and a complex meter called Anustup.
		Ramayana contains 24,000 verses [sloka] arranged into numerous cantos [sarga] which are contained in 6 books as mentioned earlier.
	www.valmikiramayan.net /ramayana.shtml (766 words)

	Sudarsana Ashtakam of Vedanta Desika
		Swami Desikan won that debate and thereby established the supremacy of Sriman Narayana and Visishtadvaita.
		Swami Desikan chose the 'dhrithas' chandas as a meter for the 8 verses praising Sudarsana.
		Both these meters hint at the the Vedic roigin of Sudarsana as indicated by Swami Desikan in one or more verses of this Stotram.
	www.ramanuja.org /sv/acharyas/desika/stotras/sudarsana.html (1224 words)

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