Shrutabodha 38_156

38_156

Meaning: O you whose face (mukham = ānanam) is fair (suṣṭhu = śobhanam)—in the vocative! In which [metre] (yatra = vṛttau), the first (prācyāḥ = prathamāḥ) five (pañca = five) syllables (varṇāḥ) should be light (laghavaḥ = hrasvāḥ syuḥ); thereafter (tataḥ = tadanu), the one next to the tenth (daśamāntika = the eleventh); then (tadanu = tataḥ), the thirteenth and fourteenth (tricaturdaśau = trayodaśacaturdaśau) syllables (varṇau = akṣare) should be [light] (laghunī syātām); O you whose speech (ālāpaḥ = bhāṣaṇam) is charming (lalitaḥ = manoharaḥ)—in the vocative! Again (punaḥ = bhūyaḥ), the penultimate (upāntyaḥ = standing next to the last)