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- noun A form of
Sanskrit poem .
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Well, okay, with the first one, a portmanteau, you need to know that "shloka" is a Sanskrit word that means a verse, usually a prayer.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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There is a Sanskrit shloka to remember important nine Nāgas as under: Dainik Bhaskar 30 July 2006
Archive 2009-07-01 photographerno1 2009
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For things to be easily expressible when they are in verse, one can violate the word order within a shloka (a Sanskrit verse) so as to make it clear.
Guidelines from the Mongolian Experience for Translating Tibetan Buddhist Texts lCang-skya Rol-pa'i rdo-rje 2006
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'Mahâbhârata' destroys all sin and produces virtue, so much so that the pronunciation of a single shloka is sufficient to wipe away much guilt.
Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala Kalidasa 1866
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In an earlier chapter, we have quoted the Sanskrit shloka
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Satyaki - that was refered to in the last shloka - was the grandson of Sini.
Drishtikone 2010
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While competitions will be held in memory test, word power and shloka recitation in Group A, it will be in memory test, forming a sentence and shloka recitation for the other three groups, according to N. Bharathy, organiser of the Samskrita Bharathi, Tiruchi.
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Next, Geetha presented a shloka on the Mother Goddess, 'Amba Shambavi.'
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The invocation with the "Adharam Madhuram" shloka, and the mallari mangala nritya where the troupe moved in perfectly rehearsed co-ordination, was followed by the varnam-like structure in which a total Krishna expression was conceived, fashioned round the texual framework of verses from Vallabhacharya's "Sundara Gopalam" with other poetic choices spun round the exploits of the God.
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The MIP also has the Indian flag painted on its sides a Sanskrit shloka as well.
IBN Top Headlines 2008
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