Alankar(Decor) -229

A Microcosm's Prayer(Slokha) Sloka, is the most common Sanskrit meter and is a descendant of the older Vedic gayatri The sloka, meaning 'song', although metric, is not considered poetic. It functions more as the equivalent to Western prose with lines and meter and is often used in narratives or epics. The defining features of the sloka are: stanzaic, written in any number of couplets made up of 2 hemistiches. The hemistiches can be broken into 4 lines or padas creating quatrains,4 lines or padas syllabic, either 2 lines of 16 syllables each or 4 hemistiches of 8 syllables each. metric, alternate hemistiches of trochaic and iambic patterns. A Microcosm's Prayer Divine Mother, thou art dazzling Dazzling so huge that I can't hold Mother of mothers all and whole Pray, me a droplet rise my size Divine Mother thou art in all Thou art in all flora, fauna In this tiny droplet so too Rise my size within me, I watch