Shivanandalahari

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The Shivananda Lahari (Sanskrit: शिवानन्दलहरी, romanized: Śivānandalaharī) is a devotional hymn composed by Adi Shankara, an Advaita philosopher, on Shiva. It literally means, "wave of auspicious bliss". It consists of one hundred stanzas of Sanskrit poetry in various chandas (metres). It was composed by Adi Shankara while staying in Srisailam, a pilgrimage town, in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh. It begins with an ode to Mallikarjuna and Bhramarambika, the deities at Srisailam. Shivananda Lahari was translated into Telugu language with word-to-word explanation by Balijepalli Lakshmikantham Kavi and published in 1916.

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