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slo⋅ka

  [sloh-kuh]
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–noun
a couplet or distich of Sanskrit verse, esp. one with each line containing 16 syllables.
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slo·ka   (shlō'kə)   
n.  A distich of Sanskrit verse consisting of two sixteen-syllable lines of two eight-syllable padas each.

[Sanskrit ślokaḥ, sound, hymn, sloka; see kleu- in Indo-European roots.]
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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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