Shrutabodha 18_77

18_77

Meaning: O conch-necked woman! She whose neck is like a conch-shell, in that vocative, O conch-necked woman, O conch-throated woman. Where—in which verse, the sixth syllable—the sixth phoneme, just so—in this very manner, the next after the eighth—the ninth, becomes light—short, O slender-limbed woman—O delicate-limbed woman. [And likewise,] caesura—a pause should occur at [the interval of] the four Vedas and the seven horses, those versed in metrics call that the metre named śālinī. Śālinī: 11 syllables per quarter-verse; metrical triplets: ma, ta, ta, heavy, heavy; caesura at 4, 7; — — —, — — ᴗ, — — ᴗ, —, —. (17)