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Sloka

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Sloka 

a section of the city of Jūrmala in the Latvian SSR. [23–1747–]



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Batra also remembered by heart most of its slokas and would recite them like a true Pandit and then explained to me in simple language the central theme behind each sloka.
21) A few authoritative translations of the sloka are quoted below: "O my dear Lord, by what symptoms is one known who is transcendental to those modes?
Dating in its current form from around the middle of the first millennium BC, it is traditionally credited to the sage Valmiki, who is said to have invented the sloka form (stanzas of two lines, each with 16 syllables) while writing it.
 
 
 
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