一切經音義 71.65

71.65

室路迦 [śloka] (formerly written as shulujia 輸盧迦, shoulujia 首盧迦, or shouluke 首盧柯: Examining the Western Regions’ method for counting scriptures, thirty-two syllables are taken as one śloka. Furthermore, it is mostly applied to ordinary people composing worldly songs and poems; this is also one of the metrical measures in the Chandoviciti treatises).