Shrutabodha 18_80

18_80

Construal: O fair-formed woman, [where] first the four [syllables] and the eleventh and twelfth syllables should be heavy; O lovely girl, O woman fragrant as a night-lotus, thereafter the two syllables following the twelfth, and likewise the final [two] syllables should be heavy; O darling, where a caesura occurs at [intervals of] the ages, the rasas, and the horses; O slender woman, the foremost poets proclaim that to be mandākrāntā. (18)