Definition of "sloka" [sloka]

• A distich of Sanskrit verse consisting of two sixteen-syllable lines of two eight-syllable padas each. (noun)

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• "Earlier, only 40 hymns and one 'sloka' of Guru Ravidass, which were part of the Guru Granth Shaib, were treated as his compositions."
• "'sloka' of Guru Ravidass, which is part of the Sikh holy book."
• "If honourable Members will care to go just outside this Assembly hall and look at the dome above, they will see a sloka in Sanskrit:"