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# Shrutabodha 18\_75

English (machine translation) 18\_75

- **Language:** English

### [18\_75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.18_75)

The śālinī metre.  
Where the sixth syllable becomes short, / and likewise the penultimate, O woman with a conch-shell neck! / \[and\] where, O slender woman, there is a caesura at the Vedas and the horses \[4 and 7\], / prosodists declare that \[metre\] to be śālinī. || 17

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