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SivanandaLahari

Adi Shankara, Maruthoor Purushothaman, Translator

2026

Abstract

Sivanandalahari, the Inundation of Divine Bliss, is a work noted as much for its literary beauty as for its devotional fervour. It is traditionally attributed to Adi Shankara. Composed in 100 verses, The text uses all devices of poetic art to depict the sentiment of devotion, and highly suggestive metaphors follow one after another in succession presenting the various aspects of devotion in a highly artistic form

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