Shrutabodha 18_62
English (machine translation) 18_62
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18_62
Meaning: In the vocative case for one whose speech is like a lute: O woman whose voice is like a lute! In which syllabic metre (yasyām) all syllables (sarve varṇāḥ)—every single syllable—should be long (dīrghāḥ), that is, consisting of two morae; and there should be a caesura (viśrāmaḥ), that is, a pause (yatiḥ), after every four syllables (vedairvedaiḥ); that (sā) syllabic metre bearing that name has been explained (vyākhyātā), that is, stated, by assemblies of scholars (vidvadvṛndaiḥ). || 14