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# Shrutabodha 20

English (machine translation) 20

- **Language:** English

### [20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.20)

The dodhaka syllabic metre.  
Where the first, the fourth, O woman of broad hips, the seventh, the tenth, and likewise the final \[syllables\] / are heavy, O embodiment of manifest love's power! that indeed is declared the dodhaka syllabic metre. (20)

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