sloka

American  

[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 George Thibaut

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 Alexander Wilder

Moreover, Scripture, in continuation of the phrase, 'Brahman is the tail, the support,' goes on, 'On this there is also the following sloka: He who knows the Brahman as non-existing becomes himself non-existing.

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

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 Purnananda Chakravartin

The verse of eight syllables is the source of all other metres, and the sloka or double distich is the stanza most frequently used.

From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne C. Lynch Botta