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The conventions associated with the ashtakam have evolved over its literary history of more than 2500 years. One of the best known ashtakam writers was Adi Sankaracharya, who created an ashtakam cycle with a group of ashtakams, arranged to address a particular deity, and designed to be read both as a collection of fully realized individual poems and as a single poetic work comprising all the ...
The thought behind the composition in 'Bhakti mixed with Love', being a typical frame of devotion and dedication in the Bhakti movement.In the loved bhakti frame, the devotee falls in love with the almighty and to the devotee, all the attributes and actions of God appears sweet, as those appear to a lover.
' destroyer of illusion '), is a popular Hindu devotional poem in Sanskrit composed by Adi Shankara. It underscores the view that bhakti (devotion) is also important along with jñāna (knowledge), as emphasised by the bhakti movement .
Mu'nis al-ahrar, left frontispiece, 1341.The clothing is Mongol, and the style corresponds to the Mongol Ilkhanid court of Iran. [1]The Free Man's Companion to the Niceties of Poems (Persian: Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar, often shortened to Mu'nis al-ahrar) is an anthology of poems written in 1340/41 by the Persian poet and anthologist from Isfahan, Jajarmi.
An Ashtakam is a Sanskrit hymn comprising a total of eight verses. These verses typically glorify a specific deity, highlighting their qualities, virtues, and powers. The word "Ashta" means "eight," hence the Ashtakam contains eight verses.
The text is as follows: [3] I am not mind, nor intellect, nor ego, nor the reflections of inner self (citta). I am not the five senses, nor am I the five elements.
The hymn is based on the legend of Annapurna, a form of the goddess Parvati who represents nourishment and sustenance. Her consort, Shiva, is regarded to have begged for food from her to save the inhabitants of earth from starvation after she withdrew all sources of food from living beings.
Harivarasanam (ഹരിവരാസനം) is a Malayalam [1] ashtakam sung as a lullaby to Lord Ayyappan at the Sabarimala Sree Dharma Sastha Temple, situated in Kerala, India.