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sloka

[sloh-kuh]

slo·ka

[sloh-kuh]
noun
a couplet or distich of Sanskrit verse, especially one with each line containing 16 syllables.
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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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sloka

chief verse form of the Sanskrit epics. A fluid metre that lends itself well to improvisation, the sloka consists of two verse lines (a distich) of 16 syllables each or four half lines (hemistichs) of 8 syllables each.

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