Disclaimer
Where we're confident, where we're not, and what you should check for yourself.
Last reviewed 20 August 2026
We try hard to get these texts right. We don't claim to have got them all right. For serious study or sustained practice, check against a printed edition or a teacher — and please tell us what you find.
The texts
The Sanskrit here is published from established repositories of classical literature. We don't rewrite or shorten verses, but digitised texts can carry errors from long before they reached us, and our own reformatting can introduce new ones. Where a stotra has more than one traditional reading — and many do — the version here is the one our source gives, not a ruling on which is correct.
Translations
The English meanings exist to help you follow a verse. They're drafted with machine assistance and checked by people, which catches much and misses some. Devotional Sanskrit is compressed and allusive, and a compound will often support more than one honest reading. Treat a translation here as a guide to the sense, not as an authority to be quoted against a teacher or a commentary.
Transliteration
Conversion between scripts is rule-based and mechanical, so it's consistent — but a rule that's wrong is wrong everywhere it applies. If a word reads oddly in your script, that's worth reporting; fixing the rule usually corrects many texts at once.
Categories and traditional benefits
Groupings such as “Health & Healing” or “Wealth & Prosperity” report what tradition and the texts themselves say about a stotra's use. They are descriptions of a devotional tradition, not claims about outcomes.
Nothing here is medical, psychological, legal or financial advice. Recitation is a spiritual practice and is not a substitute for a doctor, a medicine, or competent professional help. If you're unwell, see someone qualified.
Practice and guidance
Where a tradition, a guru or a family practice differs from what's written here, follow the tradition. We're a reading library, not a teacher, and we're not in a position to advise on anyone's sādhanā.
Liability
The content is offered as it is, without any warranty of accuracy or fitness for a particular purpose, and we don't accept liability for errors, omissions, or anything done in reliance on them. That's the formal version. The plain version is at the top of this page and means the same thing.
Found something wrong?
That's the most useful thing you can do here. Thereport form asks which text, which script, and what's wrong with it. A verse number and a line is enough to start.