![]() ![]() īoth the ninth and tenth quatrains of this hymn conclude with lists of Shiva's epithets as destroyer, even the destroyer of death itself. Alliteration and onomatopoeia create rolling waves of resounding beauty in this example of Hindu devotional poetry. The stotra has 16 syllables per line of the quatrain, with laghu ( short syllable) and guru ( long syllable) characters alternating the poetic meter is iambic octameter by definition.
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