shloka
श्लोक ślokaThe anushtubh couplet of four eight-syllable feet, the standard verse of the Sanskrit epics; in the Ramayana it is born from the sage's shoka, grief.
Where this term appears
- What is the Mahabharata? Scriptures
The received Sanskrit text runs to roughly 100,000 shlokas (two-line verses), organized into eighteen books called parvas .
- What is the Ramayana? Scriptures
The tradition calls that line the first shloka, and it calls Valmiki the adikavi , the first poet.
- What is the Bhagavad Gita? Scriptures
It is called the charama shloka , the final or ultimate verse, the supreme saving instruction: that beyond all the paths, there is simply taking shelter in God.
- The Three Paths to Liberation: Karma, Bhakti and Jnana Essentials
…d together, until the poem's final and most famous verse, the charama shloka at 18.66: abandon all dharmas and take refuge in me alone, and I will free you from all sins.
- What is Moksha? Essentials
The Gita gives the devotional path its most famous expression in the verse the tradition calls the charama shloka , the final teaching, 18.66.
- What is Vaishnavism? Lineages
At the very end of the song, in the verse the tradition calls the charama shloka , the final word, Krishna tells the anguished warrior how to be free.
- Who is Shiva? Deities
Shiva is the supreme reality for the Shaiva traditions, and, by one widely cited estimate, for something like a quarter of all Hindus, though such figures are rough…
- Is the Bhagavad Gita an interpolation in the Mahabharata? Journal
The famous final teaching, the carama shloka at 18.66, does not tell Arjuna to do his duty.