The mantras are like the flowers and the stotras are like the garland. The stotra is like a garland and is formed newly by the ritwik, by grouping mantras together. The ritwik or the hotha, is protecting the stotra and is called also, ‘Pushti’. This kind of song which comes from the two Vedas has been called ‘Stuti’. (SSB 1974, p. 242)