Contents: Foreword. 1. Introductory/Mukund Wadekar. 2. The devotional diologue in the Rgveda/Usha Brahmachari. 3. Pancadevata Atharvasirsa-a resume/Vaijayanti Shete. 4. The Sanskrit stotras of Ganesa/Sunanda Shastri. 5. Vedantic stotras of Sankaracarya/Nina Bhavanagari. 6. Satpadi of Sankaracarya/Nilambar Deota. 7. Gadyatrayam of devout Ramanuja/Gauri Mahulikar. 8. Sanskrit stotras of Sri Vallabhacarya/Urmi Shah. 9. The Vinayakastava in the Devipurana/Saswati Sen. 10. Siva-Sakti stotras in the Mahabhagavatapuranam/Hansa Bhatt. 11. Candisataka of Banabhatta-the glory of Devi’s Carana (foot)/Sharmila Bagchi. 12. A study of vasudharastotra Goddess of abundance/Ramanath Pandey. 13. Devotional stotras and Astakas in Svaminarayana sect/Nehal Pandya. 14. Laharikavyas of Pandita Jagannatha/Kartika Pandya. 15. Jaganmangala ratahsmaranastotram/Mukund Wadekar. 16. Sanskrit stotras of P.P. Vasudevananda Sarasvati of Garudesvara/Shewta Jejurkar. 17. Sri Ramakrsnasahasranamastotram: a study/Ravindra Panda. 18. Eulogical poems of Maharsi Aurbindo and Sri Ma Pujalal/Sweta Prajapati. 19. Stotra Kavyas in modern Sanskrit literature/Daxa Purohit. (19 items in Hindi articles).

The oriental Institute M.S. University of Baroda organized on 30th and 31st December, 2008 a two days national seminar on the topic of Devotional literature in Sanskrit. More than fourty scholars from different parts if India, Gujarat and Vadodara presented their papers on the said topic. These papers were on different aspects like the stotras of Ganesa, Devi, Surya, Siva, Visnu as also the stotras composed by the great saints like Sankaracarya, Ramanujacarya, Vallabhacarya, Nimbarkacarya etc. and relating to the Bauddha religion and the Svaminarayana sect. The strotras, composed by modern saints and poets are also taken note of. All these papers presented by the scholars are compiled here in the form of this book. It would be very interesting to find scholarly information on so many stotras at one place in this book. (jacket)