Navaratri was always filled with loads of work for amma. From 5 AM in the morning to 10 PM night we would see her work relentlessly in Prayer Room and Kitchen. She taught us few slokas which were chanted everyday for 9 days during Navaratri. The first 4 days was specially kept aside for Lakshmi Asthaka, next 2 days for Saraswati slokas and remaining 3 days for Durgastotras. Lakshmi Ashtaka was something she recited everyday and listening to her we had learned it. The divine atmosphere early in the morning with her sweet voice of aarthi, slokas and sweet smell of incence sticks and fragrance of good food..ummm..we miss those days.
The very first prize I won in my life was for sloka recitation at the age of 5... teaching credits go to my dad who made me stand against the wall and made me recite Saraswathi stotra, Vigneshwara stotra 4 times a day :) . He was and is..proud of that achievement even now. He tells those stories to my son "you know your mummy took first prize for telling "jaijai" (god) song when she went to nursery" and my son is all ears listening to those stories..He has an agenda this time for my dad 1. tatha (grandpa) must show me amma's school 2. he must also ...show me amma's school photos..his tatha is equally excited as him and counting down the days... :D
Well... coming back to stotras and sholkas, I thought of sharing my handwritten stotras which were in Kannada Script. Readers please bear with my handwriting. I have also linked to sites which show English version of the lyrics, Audio clips, so please go through them too..
AsthaLakshmi Stotra
Audio Clips at Kannadaaudio(dot)com
English Text of the Stotra here
AshtaLakshmi Stotra Continued....
Lakshmi Ashtaka
Audio Clips at Kannadaaudio (dot) com
English text of the stotram here
Saraswathi Stotra
English Text of Stotras here and here
12 comments:
First of all you ve beautiful hand writting :) Great to hear that u won prize at the age of 5!
Nice Lakshmi...its good to recite Goddess slokas during Navaratri festival..and always ...thnq for sharing...
rgds..
wow lakshmi .. iam very happy today seeing some writing in kannada that too in the blogging word .. I love reciting these shlokas too .. hope u r having a good navaratri
WoW lakshmi ...great writing ...Gr8 slokas
Really useful one... great...
great handwriting how could u write without striking even once ? amazed!and thanks for the sloka..though i donno kannada, i can really relate to this sloka as i know it by heart in tamil!
@ Cham, Thank you for both the compliments :)
@Ano,
Thanks ri...
@ Deesha,
eheheeh..I am glad that I made you feel happy :)
Laxmi tumba thanks ri kannada lipi nalliro sloka upload madiddakke..By any chance nim hatra sarastawi stotra and sahastranama and durga sahatranama kannada dalli idre upload madi swalpa
handwriting tumba chennagide ri.. nanu print out togodiddini!
Thumba chennaagitthu ee dasara blog. Mysoorige hogi banda haagey aayithu. Khanditha nimma blog -ge punah barutthene !
really nice one a! i felt nammanel idini anta, im so happy for this, good luck keep it up, al da best and happy deepawali.
hey nice sholkam ya thanks and a very gr8 job
@ both Anonymous,
Thanks for your lovely coments. Keep visiting TOM.
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