Shrutabodha 18_68

18_68

Meaning: O slender woman (tanvi), that is, of delicate limbs! In which verse (yatra) the first (ādyam), the fourth (caturtham), the fifth, the sixth (ṣaṣṭham), the final (antyam), that is, the tenth, and the penultimate (upāntyam), that is, the ninth near the end, [syllable] should be heavy (guruḥ), that is, long; and there should be a caesura (virāmaḥ)—a pause—at the senses and arrows (indriyabāṇaiḥ), that is, after every 5 syllables; that syllabic metre bearing that name is to be declared (kathanīyā), that is, stated. Campakamālā: syllables per quarter-verse: 10; metrical triplets: bha, ma, sa, heavy; caesura: 5, 5; – ⏑ ⏑, – – –, ⏑ ⏑ –, –. || 15