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INTRODUCTION TO THE
CONTENTS OF VOLUME THREE
Kavyakantha Ganapati Muni was a poet par excellence. Po-
etry was not something mentally conceived and produced, but
something that arose as a spontaneous fountain from his inner con-
sciousness, from the greater depths of his being. He took to liter-
ary activities as a part of his tapas, and very aptly he used his
poetic ability by composing beautiful stotras or devotional lyrics.
His contribution to stotra literature in Sanskrit is incredible and
unparalleled.
This volume is the last part of stotragranthamālā of the
Muni. The first stotra in this volume is dedicated to Bhagavan
Ramana Maharshi, and is titled as śrīramaṇacatvārimśat. The
Muni says here that it is Maharshi who having removed the dark-
ness has made it possible for him to see the all-effulgent Lord.
There are forty two verses in this stotra composed in nine differ-
ent metres. Through the power of his devotion and poetic ability,
the Muni has made the stotra worth reciting as a daily prayer to
Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi. (A detailed note on this stotra is
given in this volume under the title A Note on śrīramaṇa-
catvārimsat)
In the second stotra Lord Shiva has been praised in hun-
dred verses. Therefore, the stotra has been titled as sivasatakam.
The hundred verses are divided into ten groups, each containing
ten verses written in a particular metre. Each section is named
after the metre used therein.
The third stotra, sivastavarāja has seventy two verses writ-
ten in four different metres of gayatrī variety. So the stotra is
evenly divided into four sections, each containing eighteen verses.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME THREE
Kavyakantha Ganapati Muni was a poet par excellence. Po-
etry was not something mentally conceived and produced, but
something that arose as a spontaneous fountain from his inner con-
sciousness, from the greater depths of his being. He took to liter-
ary activities as a part of his tapas, and very aptly he used his
poetic ability by composing beautiful stotras or devotional lyrics.
His contribution to stotra literature in Sanskrit is incredible and
unparalleled.
This volume is the last part of stotragranthamālā of the
Muni. The first stotra in this volume is dedicated to Bhagavan
Ramana Maharshi, and is titled as śrīramaṇacatvārimśat. The
Muni says here that it is Maharshi who having removed the dark-
ness has made it possible for him to see the all-effulgent Lord.
There are forty two verses in this stotra composed in nine differ-
ent metres. Through the power of his devotion and poetic ability,
the Muni has made the stotra worth reciting as a daily prayer to
Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi. (A detailed note on this stotra is
given in this volume under the title A Note on śrīramaṇa-
catvārimsat)
In the second stotra Lord Shiva has been praised in hun-
dred verses. Therefore, the stotra has been titled as sivasatakam.
The hundred verses are divided into ten groups, each containing
ten verses written in a particular metre. Each section is named
after the metre used therein.
The third stotra, sivastavarāja has seventy two verses writ-
ten in four different metres of gayatrī variety. So the stotra is
evenly divided into four sections, each containing eighteen verses.