Help and study
Guides
Help for using the reader and study guides for Shankara stotras, daily practice, and Sanskrit transliteration.
Using the site
Practice
- How to read stotras
Chanting posture, daily practice, and using the reader with intention.
- Chanting with mala and pauses
Japa mala use and where to pause between verses.
- Complete stotra list
Annotated bibliography of all works in the library.
- Travel and sacred compositions
Kashi, rivers, and pilgrimage hymns.
By deity
By work
- Bhaja Govindam guide
Context, structure, and Moha Mudgara.
- Kanakadhara Stotram guide
Lakshmi hymn meaning and when to chant.
- Nirvana Shatakam guide
Atma Shatakam and six verses explained.
- Soundarya Lahari guide
Introduction to the hundred-verse Devi hymn.
- Shiva Panchakshara guide
Om Namah Shivaya and five verses.
- Gurvashtakam guide
Eight verses on the guru for Guru Purnima.
- Dakshinamurti Stotram guide
Ten Advaita verses on maya, the Self, and the Guru.
- Dakshinamurti Ashtakam guide
Eight core verses on the silent Guru beneath the banyan tree.
- Shivananda Lahari guide
Introduction to the hundred-verse wave of bliss to Shiva.
- Govindashtakam guide
Eight verses praising Govinda as supreme bliss.
- Ganapati Stotram guide
Five verses to golden Vinayaka and the six-syllable Om.
- Ganesha Pancharatnam guide
Five jewelled verses to Mudakara Vinayaka.
- Vishwanathashtakam guide
Eight verses to Kashi Vishvanatha.
- Kalabhairavashtakam guide
Eight verses to Kalabhairava, lord of Kashi.
- Shiva Bhujangam guide
Thirty-three verses from Ganesha to pure consciousness.
- Lalita Pancharatnam guide
Five dawn verses to Lalita Tripurasundari.