[Advaita-l] Shivashtakam by Adi Shankaracharya

Venkatesh Murthy vmurthy36 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 13 10:29:52 EST 2017


Namaste

This is another Shivashtakam sung by a boy Rahul Vellal. See how clear is
his pronunciation.

https://youtu.be/OFGFxUoz8Mw

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Venkatesh Murthy <vmurthy36 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste
>
> Listen to the song with modern music -
> https://youtu.be/D38dhUmM-6I
>
> Stotra and translation -
>
> http://greenmesg.org/mantras_slokas/sri_shiva-shivashtakam.php
>
> In this Stotra there is a line ब्रह्मोर्जितोर्ध्वगकरोटिनिकृन्तनाय Who chopped
> off the upper Head of Brahma which became full of Pride. There are two
> stories how Siva cut off Brahma's fifth head. One is how Brahma was
> obsessed with his own daughter and looking at her wherever she went. Siva
> got angry and cut off one head. Another is the story of Bhairava. Both are
> given here -
>
> http://hindumythologybynarin.blogspot.in/2011/07/brahma-
> kapalam-story-of-lord-brahmas.html?m=1#!/2011/07/brahma-
> kapalam-story-of-lord-brahmas.html
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Regards
>
> -Venkatesh
>



-- 
Regards

-Venkatesh


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