[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Auxiliary Sciences of the Veda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga) › [Metrics (prosody)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda) › [Śrutabodha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt) › 18\_79 # Shrutabodha 18\_79 English (machine translation) 18\_79 - **Language:** English ### [18\_79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.18_79) The mandākrāntā metre. First the four \[syllables\], O fair-formed woman, are heavy; and if the eleventh and twelfth \[are heavy\], / O lovely girl; thereafter, O \[sweet\] with the fragrance of the night-lotus, the two syllables following the twelfth \[are heavy\]; // and likewise the final two \[are heavy\]; where, O darling, the caesura is at \[intervals of\] the ages, the rasas, and the horses, / the foremost poets, O slender woman, proclaim that to be mandākrāntā. (18) - [Previous: 18\_78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.18_78) - [Next: 18\_80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.18_80) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.18_79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.18_79) · Pramāṇa