अथ वन्दनम्
प्रणमेदथ साष्टाङ्गं तन्मुद्रां च प्रदर्शयेत् ।
पठेत्प्रतिप्रणामं च प्रसीद भगवन्निति ॥
तदुक्तमेकादशे श्रीभगवता—
स्तवैरुच्चावचैः स्तोत्रैः पौराणैः प्राकृतैरपि ।
स्तुत्वा प्रसीद भगवन्निति वन्देत दण्डवत् ॥
atha vandanam
praṇamed atha sāṣṭāṅgaṁ tan-mudrāṁ ca pradarśayet |
paṭhet prati-praṇāmaṁ ca prasīda bhagavann iti ||
tad uktam ekādaśe śrī-bhagavatā—
stavair uccāvacaiḥ stotraiḥ paurāṇaiḥ prākṛtair api |
stutvā prasīda bhagavann iti vandeta daṇḍavat ||
(Hari-bhakti-vilāsa: 8.357–358)
“Now, [offering] obeisance [shall be described]: Then, one should prostrate with eight limbs and show the mudrā thereof. With every prostration, one should also declare, ‘Be pleased, O Bhagavān!’ This is stated by Śrī Bhagavān in the Eleventh [Canto, i.e., SB 11.27.45], ‘One should [offer] praise with various stavas and stotras, ancient and vernacular, [entreat Bhagavān,] ‘Be pleased, O Bhagavān,’ and offer obeisance like a stick.”
Commentary
stava-stotrāṇāṁ bhedaṁ darśayati—paurāṇaiḥ prākṛtair apīti |
(Bhāvārtha-dīpikā)
“He shows a distinction among stavas and stotras: ‘ancient and vernacular’ (paurāṇaiḥ prākṛtair api) [i.e., a stotra is an ancient hymn of praise and a stava is a modern, vernacular hymn of praise].”
prākṛtair arvācīnair loka-bhāṣā-nibaddhair iti vā |
(Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā)
“Prākṛtaiḥ means modern, or, composed in the language of the people [i.e., vernacular].”
stava-stotrayor ārṣa-pauruṣatvena bhedaḥ kalpyaḥ | prasīda bhagavann iti vijñāpayan daṇḍavad bhūmau patan vandeta |
(Sārārtha-darśinī-ṭīkā)
“A distinction between stavas and stotras is to be conceived on account of [their] being authored by ṛṣis and being authored by people [i.e., a stotra is a hymn of praise authored by a ṛṣi, whereas a stava is a hymn of praise composed by a person in general]. Entreating [Bhagavān], ‘Be pleased, O Bhagavān,’ one should offering obeisance, falling on the ground like a stick.”
stotra-stavayor abhede’py avāntara-bhedaḥ pūrva-prasiddhatva-svakṛtatvābhyāṁ jñeyaḥ |
(Bhakti-sāra-pradarśinī-ṭīkā on Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 1.2.159)
“Although there is no difference between a stotra and a stava, a minor difference [between them] is to be understood on account of [a stotra’s] being previously composed [by someone else] and [a stava’s] being self-authored.”