Stotra PDF downloads
Three of the texts recited most often in Braj, set in clean Devanagari and free to download, print and share. We typeset these ourselves rather than reusing a file from elsewhere, because nearly every copy in circulation carries the same broken letters. Nothing here is sold, nothing needs an account, and nothing asks for your email address.
Last updated 7 September 2026Free stotra PDF downloads
Tap a file to open it, then use your browser or phone to save it. The two stotras are around a hundred kilobytes each and the Chaurasi is under four hundred, so all three cost very little on mobile data.
श्री हित चौरासी
Shri Hit Chaurasi — Eighty four pads · Braj Bhasha · A4 · 391 KB
The eighty four pads of Shri Hit Harivansh Mahaprabhu, founder of the Radhavallabh Sampradaya, composed in the sixteenth century and still sung in the kunjs of Vrindavan. This is the founding text of the tradition Premanand Ji Maharaj received diksha into.
श्री राधा कृपा कटाक्ष स्तोत्र
Shri Radha Kripa Kataksh Stotra — Thirteen verses · Sanskrit · A4 · 112 KB
The hymn to Shri Radha attributed to Lord Shiva, recited daily in temples across Vrindavan and known in Braj as the anthem of the town. Every verse but one closes with the same question: when will you make me a vessel fit to receive your merciful glance.
श्री कृष्णाष्टकम्
Shri Krishnashtakam — Eight verses and phalashruti · Sanskrit · A4 · 97 KB
Eight verses in praise of Shri Krishna as the child of Nanda and the beloved of Vraj, ending with the phalashruti that describes what the recitation brings. Short enough to keep as a daily paath alongside naam japa.
Nobody should charge you for a stotra. No priest, no website and no app needs to be paid to give you a text like this, to recite it for you, or to unlock a special version of it. Anything sold on those terms is selling what was always free.
Why we typeset these ourselves
It would have been far quicker to find a PDF and re-host it. Here is why we did not, and what we did instead.
Almost every copy online is broken
Most Devanagari devotional text on the internet was typed decades ago in a legacy font such as Krutidev and converted to Unicode by a tool that did not understand conjuncts. The i-matra ends up inside the cluster instead of after it, so पण्डिते is stored as पणि्डते.
On a phone it looks very nearly correct, which is exactly the problem. Nobody notices, the file gets copied onward, and the error spreads faster than the correct reading does.
We found it in our own page first
This site published the Radha Kripa Kataksh with seven of those broken conjuncts, on a page that warns readers about broken conjuncts. The text had come down the same chain as everyone else's.
It has been corrected, and every change is listed openly rather than quietly fixed, because a devotional text that changes without explanation is not more trustworthy than one that was wrong.
What we actually repaired
Twenty one corrections across the thirteen verses. Seven were reordered conjuncts. The rest were dropped letters of the kind a bad conversion leaves behind: चूण for चूर्ण, विगहे for विग्रहे, सुवण for सुवर्ण, मण्ङले for मण्डले.
Two readings we have deliberately left alone, because correcting them would mean guessing rather than repairing. They are flagged rather than silently improved.
The Krishnashtakam source
The copy we worked from rendered three places as blank gaps where glyphs had failed. Its own hidden text layer supplied one of them, and the pattern of the surrounding verses supplied the other two, both of which repeat words used elsewhere in the same stotra.
Those three repairs are the only editorial decisions in that file, and they are recorded in the build source alongside the text.
Why a PDF and not only a web page
A page is better for reading with the meaning beside you. A file is better for a phone with no signal in a queue before dawn, for a printout on a stand, and for a copy that stays the same every time you open it.
Both exist here for the Radha Kripa Kataksh, and the file is generated straight from the page, so the two can never drift apart.
The Chaurasi, and how it was checked
The eighty four pads sit at the centre of the Radhavallabh Sampradaya that Premanand Ji Maharaj belongs to, so getting them right mattered more than getting them up quickly. The copy first supplied was a slideshow of images with no text in it at all.
The text finally used carries no broken conjuncts, and pad one matches that image slideshow line for line, which is the sort of agreement between two unrelated sources that makes a text worth publishing.
A file you can trust is worth more than a file that arrives quickly
Devotional texts move through the internet by copying. A file is downloaded, forwarded on WhatsApp, re-uploaded to another site, printed for a satsang, and eventually learned by heart. Nothing in that chain checks the text, which is why a single bad conversion made twenty years ago is still spreading today, and why several of the most widely shared copies of the Radha Kripa Kataksh contain the same seven errors as each other.
That is the whole reason these files exist. Not because no PDF of these texts was available, but because the ones available were carrying mistakes into people's daily paath. If you find something wrong in ours, tell us and it will be fixed and rebuilt the same week.
For the Radha Kripa Kataksh verse by verse with its meaning, see the stotra page, and for all eighty four pads of the Shri Hit Chaurasi. For what Maharaj Ji himself teaches about recitation and the naam, see the teachings page.
What people ask about these files
Ten questions about the texts, the files and what you may do with them.
Are these PDFs free?
Yes, completely. There is no fee, no account, no email address to hand over and no limit on how many times you download them. Nothing on this site is sold and nothing ever will be.
Can I print them?
Yes. They are laid out on A4 with margins wide enough to bind or staple, and the type is large enough to read at arm's length on a stand. Print as many copies as you like, including for your temple or satsang group.
Can I share them or put them on my own website?
Share the files freely for devotional use. If you want to host them yourself, please link to this page instead so that people always get the corrected version rather than a copy that stops being updated.
Where did the text come from?
Both texts are centuries old and in the public domain. What we did was set them ourselves in clean Unicode Devanagari rather than reusing somebody else's file, because almost every copy circulating online carries the same broken conjuncts.
What are broken conjuncts, and why does it matter?
When old typing-font text is converted to Unicode badly, letters inside a conjunct get reordered, so पण्डिते becomes पणि्डते. It still looks almost right at a glance, and it is wrong. A person learning the paath from such a copy learns the error.
Will these open on my phone?
Yes. They are ordinary PDFs and every phone opens them without an app. Each file is around 100 KB, so it downloads in a second and costs almost nothing on a metered connection.
Is Shri Hit Chaurasi available?
Yes, all eighty four pads, both as a PDF and as a page you can read online. It is in Braj Bhasha rather than Sanskrit, and we give it without an English translation because a short gloss of poetry this old flattens more than it explains.
Do I need initiation to recite these?
No. Neither text is gated behind diksha, a fee, a priest or a particular hour. Devotees across Braj recite both without any formal Sanskrit training, and Premanand Ji Maharaj says the same about the naam.
I found a mistake in the paath. What should I do?
Please tell us, and include the verse number and what it should read. Corrections to a devotional text are the most useful message this site receives, and they are acted on the same week.
Are you connected to the ashram?
No. premanandjimaharaj.org is an independent devotee site. These files are our own typesetting of public-domain texts and are not issued by Shri Hit Radha Keli Kunj or by anyone around Maharaj Ji.
Found an error in the paath?
Send the verse number and what it should read. Corrections to a devotional text are the most useful message this site gets, and they are acted on the same week.