Shrutabodha 38_155

38_155

Syntax: O lovely-faced one (sumukhi)! In which [metre] the first five [syllables] (prācyāḥ pañca varṇāḥ) should be light (laghavaḥ syuḥ), thereafter the one next to the tenth (tataḥ daśamāntikaṃ), then the thirteenth and fourteenth syllables (tadanu tricaturdaśau varṇau) should be [light] (laghū syātām); O sweet-speaking one (lalitālāpe)! Again the penultimate [syllable should be light] (punaḥ upāntyaḥ varṇaḥ laghuḥ syāt); O woman with gleaming bracelets on your hands (sphuratkarakaṅkaṇe)! Caesura also [should be] (yatiḥ api syāt) by the flavours, Vedas, and horses (rasaiḥ vedaiḥ aśvaiḥ); that is remembered as the hariṇī [metre] (sā hariṇī iti smṛtā). || 31 [39]