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We discovered Google-Reader today! You can add our blog http://stutimandal.blogspot.com to the feed-list in your google account and then it will be easier to read.

Advantages:

1) No need to visit multiple blogspot pages, just visit 1 profile of your's.
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3) You can star or mark particular posts, and also tag them for yourself!

Disadvantages:

1) You cannot comment.
2) You will miss the background layout and connecting links.

But hey! It works good for a quick read and you can always visit our blog if you want to post a comment.

Poetry Quiz

So you thought you remember a lot of stutis or stotras (panegyrics or eulogies)? Try our mock quiz. Tell us (by email) where do these lines appear:

1) को वा ज्ञातुं त्वां मतिमानं गतमानं
मायासक्तो माधव शक्तो मुनिमान्यम्|

2) मुनि साप जो दीन्हा अति भल कीन्हा परम अनुग्रह मैं माना |
देखउँ भरि लोचन हरि भवमोचन इहइ लाभ सङ्कर जाना ||

3) भक्तिप्रियाय भवरोगभयापहाय
उग्राय दुर्गभवसागरतारणाय |

4) गुरुस्त्वं शिवस्त्वं च शक्तिस्त्वमेव
त्वमेवासि माता पितासि त्वमेव |

5) यतो जायते पाल्यते येन विश्वं
तमीशं भजे लीयते यत्र विश्वम् |

Winners will be announced here after 3 weeks. Entries can be sent by April 20, 2007. There are no prizes. Please do not post the answers here.

Hint: All the poems are there at Stutimandal

Interesting metaphor

We were translating Hanumān's panegyric from Vinayapatrikā of Tulasīdāsa, and found an interesting metaphor. While eulogizing Hanumān, the poet uses:

samaratailikayantratilatamīcaranikara

Who is like an oil-extraction machine in a battle for sesame-like army of demons