stotra
स्तोत्र stotraA hymn of praise to a deity; the Hanuman Chalisa is a stotra rather than a mantra in the technical sense.
Where this term appears
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
It is a kavaca , a protective hymn, from the Raghunath Temple manuscript library in Jammu, catalogued there under the heading stotra , praise-poem.
- The Navagraha: The Nine Planetary Powers Deities
The devotional verse that salutes him in the Navagraha Stotra gathers his whole nature into a single line: Nilanjana-samabhasam ravi-putram yamagrajam, chhaya-martanda-sambhutam tam namami shanaishcharam.
- The Twelve Jyotirlingas Temples
They learn them from a short hymn, four verses long, the Dvadasa Jyotirlinga Stotra , which functions as a mnemonic that holds the whole network in the memory.
- What is Navaratri? Worship
The list is recited as the Navadurga Stotra , and many associate it with the Devi Bhagavata Purana , a later Shakta work distinct from the Devi Mahatmya .
- Dakshinamurti: Shiva as the silent guru Deities
Shankara composed a hymn to this form, the Dakshinamurti Stotra , and near its opening he sets down the image as a paradox and refuses to soften it.
- Who Was Madhva? Philosophy
Beside these stands devotion in a different register: the Dvadasha Stotra , twelve hymns of praise to Krishna, traditionally sung during the temple worship at Udupi, and a reminder that the fierce logician was …
- Bhaja Govindam: the hammer that shatters delusion Journal
The hammer changes hands Here the hymn does something almost unique among the great stotras, and it is the dramatic heart of the whole thing.
- Kali: The Black Mother of Time Treatise
…f household and temple worship, hymned in the public-domain Karpuradi Stotra that Arthur Avalon translated a century ago, where the same black, head-garlanded Mother is approached with love rather than horror.