[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) › 19\_86 # Shrutabodha 19\_86 English (machine translation) 19\_86 - **Language:** English ### [19\_86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.19_86) Vernacular: O wearer of ornaments! O woman with a face like a lotus! When mandākrāntā is without its final caesura (pause), then know it certainly as called by the learned the haṃsī metre. That is, in mandākrāntā there are 17 syllables and a pause on the fourth, sixth, and seventh syllables. But in the haṃsī metre there are 10 syllables, in which the first 4 syllables are long, from the fifth to the ninth are light, the tenth syllable is long, and there is a pause on the 4th and 6th syllables. (19) - [Previous: 19\_85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.19_85) - [Next: 20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.20) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.19_86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.19_86) · Pramāṇa