Shloka
Shloka Shloka (meaning “song”, from the root śru, “hear”) is a category of verse line developed from the Vedic Anustubh poetic meter. The traditional view is that this form of verse was involuntarily composed by Valmiki in grief, the author of the Ramayana, on seeing a hunter shoot down one of two birds in love. The Shloka and…