[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) › 20\_88 # Shrutabodha 20\_88 English (machine translation) 20\_88 - **Language:** English ### [20\_88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.20_88) Meaning: O woman of broad hips—she whose hips, the rear portions of the waist, are broad, thick, in that vocative, O woman of wide hips. Where the first and fourth—the first and the fourth, the seventh—the seventh, the tenth—numbering ten, and likewise—in this manner, the final—and the eleventh \[syllable\], should be heavy—long. O embodiment of manifest love's power! She whose love's power—the power of passion is manifest—revealed, in that vocative; that metre indeed—certainly is declared—taught \[by poets\] to be the dodhaka syllabic metre—bearing that name. Dodhaka: 11 syllables per quarter-verse; metrical triplets: bha, bha, bha, heavy, heavy; — ᴗ ᴗ, — ᴗ ᴗ, — ᴗ ᴗ, —, —. (20) - [Previous: 20\_87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.20_87) - [Next: 20\_89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.20_89) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.20_88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.20_88) · Pramāṇa