Shrutabodha 36_145

36_145

Meaning: O sweet-spoken one!—O one of fair speech! If, the first—standing at the beginning—triad—group of three syllables, and then—after that, the eighth—having that number, the [syllable] after the ninth—the tenth, is heavy—long; and the two final [syllables]—the twelfth and thirteenth standing at the end—are heavy at the end; [and] there is a caesura—pause—at the [three] eyes of Maheśa—three—[and] the [ten] directions—ten (syllables); know that indeed—certainly—to be the syllabic metre named praharṣiṇī, O fortunate woman!—O one endowed with splendid fortune! Praharṣiṇī: 13 syllables per quarter-verse; triplets: ma, na, ja, ra, guru; caesura at 3 and 10; – – –, ⏑ ⏑ ⏑, ⏑ – ⏑, – ⏑ –, –. 36.