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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 ...
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 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.
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 term "Astakam" is derived from the Sanskrit word aṣṭan, meaning "eight".An astakam is made up of eight stanzas. In Rudrashtakam, each stanza is written in Jagati meter, and hence contains 48 syllables per stanza.
There is a legend related to the composition of this hymn. It is said that Adi Shankara, accompanied by his disciples, was walking along a street in Varanasi one day, when he came across an old aged scholar reciting the rules of Sanskrit grammar of Panini repeatedly on the street.
Satyasandha Tirtha wrote many works and most prominent among them are Viṣṇusahasranāmabhāṣya is a commentary on Vishnu Sahasranama, Vishnu Stuti, a praise-poem on Lord Vishnu and Krishnashtakam, a stotra consisting of 8 verses (ashtakam) in praise of Lord Krishna. [3] [4] [5]
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.