1. Introduction: Studying Stotras across Traditions

Part One: On the Stotra Genre

2. Navigating an Ocean of Hymns: Popular Anthologies and the Study of Sanskrit Stotras

3. An Epistemology of Stotra: Hemacandra’s Understanding of the Hymnic Genre through His Mah?deva Stotra

4. Praise-Poems in K???a Temples and Royal Courts: Virud?val? as Stotra and Pra?asti

Part Two: Recitation, Liturgy, and Preaching

5. The Jain Hymn of Undying Devotion: An Annotated Translation of the Bhakt?mara Stotra of M?natu?ga

6. History, Supernormal Powers, and Liturgy: Jain Sets of Stotras

7. Praise You as I Should: Stotras and the Dharma-Preacher (Dharmabh??aka) in Mah?y?na Buddhist S?tras

8. Stotra as Mantra and Materiality: The Case of Budha-Ka?ika’s R?marak??stotra

Part Three: Polemics and Publics: Stotras between and across Traditions

9. Receptiveness, Assertion, and Subversion in Sectarian Spaces: Appayya D?k?ita, Madhus?dana Sarasvat?, and Engagement across Traditions

10. When Haradatta Met K?re?a: Printed Stotras and the Public Memory of Sectarian Figures in India between the Seventeenth and Twentieth Centuries

11. Colonial-Era Engagements with the Stotra Genre: Bh?ratendu Hari?candra’s S?t?vallabhastotra

Epilogue

12. Stotra Musings: Shared and Contested Spaces of the Praise Poem across Traditions