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Sanskrit:
“sound,” “song of praise,” “praise,” or “stanza”

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

The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaThis article was most recently revised and updated by Charles Preston.