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# Shrutabodha 28\_117

English (machine translation) 28\_117

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### [28\_117](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.28_117)

The bhujaṅgaprayāta metre.  
When the first, the fourth, and likewise the seventh, and just so the syllable preceding the eleventh, is short, / O lotus-faced one rivaling the autumn moon, / that is declared by the foremost of poets to be bhujaṅgaprayāta. || 29

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