What is the difference between स्तोत्र and श्लोक ?

[चैतन्य लक्कुंडी (CHAITANYA LAKKUNDI)]

Hari: Om,

I was wondering what was the difference between "stotra" and "shloka". Both the words seem to have the same meaning. But in Samskrit, every different word has a different meaning, may it be slight.

[S. L. Abhyankar]

नमस्ते श्रीमन् चैतन्य-लक्कुण्डी-महोदय !

• आपटे-महाभागस्य शब्दकोशे -श्लोकः [श्लोक्-अच्] 1 Praising in verse, extolling. -2 A hymn or verse of praise. -3 Celebrity, fame, renown, name; as in पुण्यश्लोक
  
• अत्र धातुः श्लोक् 1 Ā. (श्लोकते) 1 To praise or compose in verse, versify. -2 To acquire. -3 To abandon, give up. -4 To heap together, collect.
• But श्लोक is also the name of a meter, otherwise known as अनुष्टुभ्.
• श्लोक is often a single verse, though the dictionary meaning does not indicate such limitation.
  
• श्लोक is masculine; स्तोत्रम् is neuter
  
• आपटे-महाभागस्य शब्दकोशे - स्तोत्रम् [स्तु-ष्ट्रन्] 1 Praise, eulogium. -2 A hymn of praise, panegyric
• अत्र धातुः स्तु 1 To praise, laud, eulogize, extol, glorify, celebrate
• स्तोत्रम् often has more than one verses
  
• स्तोत्रम् is not a meter. स्तोत्रम् may be composed in any meter.
  

सस्नेहम्
अभ्यंकरकुलोत्पन्नः श्रीपादः ।
"श्रीपतेः पदयुगं स्मरणीयम् ।"

[Hnbhat B.R.]

Hope the difference between two is made clear.

In short, स्तोत्र means praise of god in general, which can be composed either in versified structure श्लोक or in prose. And need not always be in श्लोक only and is not synonym of श्लोक and श्लोक is the metrical form in four पाद-s or दण्डक without the limitation of पाद called दण्डक. And the स्तोत्र is the content of the versified structure.

The nominal verb usage of श्लोक, श्लोकैरुपस्तौति उपश्लोकयति - उपश्लोकयते to praise with verses, this difference is clear.

The content of versified structure need not always सतोत्र, but it can be any description, history, stories loke Pancatantra, Hitopadesha.

[चैतन्य लक्कुंडी (CHAITANYA LAKKUNDI)]

हरि: ॐ ,

Thank you very much. I understood the difference.

[vasantha syamalam]

That means sthothra -means sthuthi -praise. It can be in any form.- poetical form or in prose form.

But shloka means lt should be in chandobhandha. any metre. Am  I correct. sholoka should 

not be in prose order.

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हरि: ॐ ,

Thank you very much. I understood the difference.

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[vasantha syamalam]

Am I correct?

[Sandip Shah]

I do not remember what book I have read this in, but supposedly a shloka is a shloka if and only if it says something new without repetition (i.e. it cannot say something that has been said by someone else in some other shloka).

SS

[Pramod Kulkarni]

May be too late to comment

Shloka, as pointed out by Abhyankarji is another name another name for the meter Anushtubha. This meter consists of 4 charans of 8 letters each. So a total of 32 letters per shloka. This meter is so immensly popular that the length of any literary work is measured in multipals of 32 as so many shlokas. For example a poem in Shardulvikriidita (19 letter long meter ) of 96 shlokas is 19*4*96/32= 228 shloka long. Fraction may be ignored or rounded .

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[RamanaMurthy Bathala]

Dear sir,

If श्लोक is prasing in verse, then can anyone tell me whether Bhavadgita is book of श्लोकs or just book of verses?

Let us take first verse:धर्मक्षेत्रे कुरुक्षेत्रे  ..... In this verse, we see just asking what happened in the battle field. There is no praise to anyone. Can this be called श्लोक?

When I was reading about poet/rishi Sri Valmiki, it was said that श्लोक is generated from शोक(sorrow). How can sorrow become praise?

Regards

Ramana murthy

[hnbhat]

On 4 August 2017, at 15:30, RamanaMurthy Bathala <bathal...@gmail.com> wrote:

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>Dear sir,
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>If श्लोक is prasing in verse, then can anyone tell me whether Bhavadgita is book of श्लोकs or just book of verses?
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>Let us take first verse:धर्मक्षेत्रे कुरुक्षेत्रे  ..... In this verse, we see just asking what happened in the battle field. There is no praise to anyone. Can this be called d?
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Here the meter श्लोक is used to describe the event of questioning by Dhritarashtra and why to confuse both?

>When I was reading about poet/rishi Sri Valmiki, it was said that श्लोक is generated from शोक(sorrow). How can sorrow become praise?
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Here you are again confusing poetry with श्लोक.

In fact, श्लोक can be used to praise any one or describe any thing. Stotra can also be in श्लोक or gadya, which can praise.

The questioner was confused and started confusing others.
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