A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s9.97

v3.c35.s9.97

Greater or smaller didactic poems on some topics, either religious or secular, are associated with some gnomic stanzas. A famous religious gnomic poem is Mohamudgara, “Hammer for Confusion” containing 17 or 18 rhyming stanzas,² that are attributed to Śaṅkara. The verses describe the voidness of the universe and blessings of mental peace and of knowledge of Viṣṇu. A few verses are quoted below:—