Shrutabodha 18_81

18_81

Meaning: O fair-formed woman—O woman of beautiful limbs, first—at the beginning, the four—numbering four syllables—phonemes, should be heavy—long; likewise, the eleventh and twelfth—these two syllables [should be heavy]; O lovely girl—O beautiful woman! She whose fragrance—scent is like a night-lotus, in that vocative; thereafter—after that, the two syllables following the twelfth—the thirteenth and fourteenth syllables [become heavy]; likewise—in that manner, the final two—the sixteenth and seventeenth also [become heavy]; O darling! Where—in which syllabic metre, caesura—a pause [occurs] at [intervals of] the ages, the rasas, and the horses—by four, six, and seven [syllables] successively; O slender woman—delicate-limbed woman, the foremost poets—the best of poets, proclaim—teach that syllabic metre to be mandākrāntā—bearing that name. Mandākrāntā: 17 syllables per quarter-verse; metrical triplets: ma, bha, na, ta, ta, heavy, heavy; caesura at 4, 6, 7; — — —, — ᴗ ᴗ, ᴗ ᴗ ᴗ, — — ᴗ, — — ᴗ, —, —.