sloka

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[sloh-kuh] / ˈsloʊ kə /

noun

1. a couplet or distich of Sanskrit verse, especially one with each line containing 16 syllables.

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Etymology

Origin of sloka

First recorded in 1800–10; from Sanskrit śloka “sound, noise, stanza, hymn”

Example Sentences

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sloka

VIII, 6, 5 quotes the old sloka which says that the man moving upwards by the artery penetrating the crown of the head reaches the Immortal.—Kaush.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by Thibaut, George

This sloka describes the state of the released soul.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George

It need not surprise us, therefore, to see that, although Râmânuja is praised in the fifty-third sloka of this poem as "the foremost of the learned," some of his tenets are attacked in the eightieth.

From The Tattva-Muktavali by Chakravartin, Purnananda

This corresponds to about 300 verses, each sloka of thirty-two syllables.

From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Wilder, Alexander

The &c. refers to the other exceptions in sloka 25.

From Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya by Edward Röer