{"id":3494,"date":"2018-03-22T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2018-03-22T08:01:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T08:01:00","slug":"madhura-ashtakam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=3494","title":{"rendered":"Madhura Ashtakam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yImuFMwpcHU\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: &quot;garamond&quot;; font-size: medium;\">Madhurashtakam, Adharam Madhuram<\/span><\/b><span style=\"background-color: black;\"><\/span><br \/>\n<b><span style=\"font-family: &quot;garamond&quot;; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>Here the poet, Vallabha, is playing on the double meaning of the word<br \/>Madhura. Madhura is the place of Lord Krishna and it means sweet also !<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;garamond&quot;; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>Adharam Madhuram Vadanam Madhuram Nayanam Madhuram Hasitam Madhuram |<br \/>Hrdayam Madhuram Gamanam Madhuram Madhura-Adhipater-Akhilam Madhuram ||1||<\/span>&nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: &quot;garamond&quot;; font-size: medium;\"><\/p>\n<p>Sweet are Thy Lips<br \/>And thy face too<br \/>Glorious Thine eyes<br \/>Also Thy Smile<br \/>Thy Heart, Thy going<br \/>Sweet indeed are They<br \/>O Lord of Madhura !<\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<b><span style=\"font-family: &quot;garamond&quot;; font-size: medium;\"><br \/><\/span><\/b><br \/>\n<b><span style=\"font-family: &quot;garamond&quot;; font-size: medium;\">More at&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guruvayur4u.com\/\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;garamond&quot;; font-size: medium;\"><b>http:\/\/www.guruvayur4u.com\/html\/madhurashtakam.htm<\/b><\/span><b><span style=\"font-family: &quot;garamond&quot;; font-size: medium;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madhurashtakam, Adharam Madhuram Here the poet, Vallabha, is playing on the double meaning of the wordMadhura. Madhura is the place of Lord Krishna and it means sweet also !Adharam Madhuram Vadanam Madhuram Nayanam Madhuram Hasitam Madhuram |Hrdayam Madhuram Gamanam Madhuram Madhura-Adhipater-Akhilam Madhuram ||1||&nbsp; Sweet are Thy LipsAnd thy face tooGlorious Thine eyesAlso Thy SmileThy Heart, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=3494\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Madhura Ashtakam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}