Hamsa Stainton is an Associate Professor in the School of Religious Studies at McGill University (Montréal, Canada). He is the author of Poetry as Prayer in the Sanskrit Hymns of Kashmir (2019) and co-editor (with Bettina Sharada Bäumer) of Tantrapuṣpāñjali: Tantric Traditions and Philosophy of Kashmir; Studies in Memory of Pandit H.N. Chakravarty.Anna Lee Whiteis a Lecturer in the Humanities Department of Marianopolis College (Montréal, Canada). Her research interests include Hindu devotional literature, hagiographies, and gender studies.

• 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 Mahādeva Stotra 4. Praise-Poems in Kṛṣṇa Temples and Royal Courts: Virudāvalī as Stotra and PraśastiPart Two: Recitation, Liturgy, and Preaching 5. The Jain Hymn of Undying Devotion: An Annotated Translation of the Bhaktāmara Stotra of Mānatuṅga 6. History, Supernormal Powers, and Liturgy: Jain Sets of Stotras 7. Praise You as I Should: Stotras and the Dharma-Preacher (Dharmabhāṇaka) in Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras 8. Stotra as Mantra and Materiality: The Case of Budha-Kauśika’s Rāmarakṣāstotra Part Three: Polemics and Publics: Stotras Between and Across Traditions9. Receptiveness, Assertion, and Subversion in Sectarian Spaces: Appayya Dīkṣita, Madhusūdana Sarasvatī, and Engagement Across Traditions 10. When Haradatta Met Kūreśa: 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: Bhāratendu Hariścandra’s Sītāvallabhastotra Epilogue12. Stotra Musings: Shared and Contested Spaces of the Praise-Poem Across Traditions