Shrutabodha 18_37

18_37

Meaning: O woman of firm breasts; in the vocative to one whose pair of breasts is firm, that is, hard; [in which syllabic metre] the set of four, that is, the set of four syllables from the beginning in the four quarter-verses; is not heavy, that is, light; [and] two, that is, the fifth and sixth; are heavy, that is, not light; [then] this, that is, that [metre], is to be understood as śaśivadanā. (8) Syllables in a quarter-verse: 6; triplets: na, ya: ᴗ ᴗ ᴗ, ᴗ – –.
Vernacular: O woman with a pair of hard breasts! The metre in which the first four syllables are light and the subsequent two, that is, the fifth and sixth syllables, are heavy, is called the śaśivadanā metre. (8)