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# Shrutabodha 21

English (machine translation) 21

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### [21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.21)

The indravajrā metre.  
In which the third, sixth, and seventh syllables are short, O woman of beautiful thighs! / and likewise the ninth; O woman whose beauty eclipses the swan by her gait! the sovereign poets call that indravajrā. (21)

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