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॥ ॐ नमः शिवाय ॥      The Shiva Mahimna Stotra is very popular among the devotees of Lord Shiva and is considered one of the best among all Stotras (or Stutis) offered to Lord Shiva . Knowledge of Chandas is very important to correctly chant the sutras.The Chandas or Sanskrit Meter used in this Stotra is called : ShikhariNI Defining    .   ,   -   and i  as: - denotes long syllable (‘ guru ’ in Sanskrit) . denotes short syllable (‘ laghu ’ in Sanskrit) i denotes place where one inhales The ShikhariNi can be written as : . - - / - - - / i . . . / . . - / -  . . / . -  i After 6th Syllable and after 17th Syllable one pauses for inhalation Following is a table with the first sutra of Mahimna Stotra,  with four padas and each pada has 17 Akshras/Syllables. These Akshras are determined on basis of Paninis Chanda Shastra created more than 2000 years ago Practice chanti...

Spandakārikā There are many versions of Spandakaarikaa's with same meaning but little differences here and there and on top of that there were many versions of Spandakaarikaa's which is very irritating and confusing and perplexing. I am choosing this : https://archive.org/details/046.spandaKarikaShyamakantaDwivediAnanda   Reason being - it seems to me that the author has done proper analysis of various scriptures available and noted various difference as well as similarities and based the text on Acharya Bhattakallatas own Vrrti of Spandakarika ( this ) Hence I will compile all the sutras from both sources above and put them here in devanaagari one by one manually for easy recital and memorization. य स्यो न्मे ष नि मे षा भ्यां ज ग तः प्र ल यो द यौ तं श क्ति च क्र वि भ व प्र भ वं श ङ्क रं स्तु मः [1] य त्र स्थि त मि दं स र्वं का र्यं य स्मा च्च नि र्ग तम् त स्या ना वृ त रू प त्वा न्न नि रो धो स्ति कु त्र चित् [2] जा ग्र दा दि व...