Shrutabodha 40_158

40_158

Syntactic prose: O lotus-eyed one (kamalanayane)! When (yadā) the first [syllable] (pūrvaḥ varṇaḥ) should be short (hrasvaḥ syāt), thereafter (tataḥ) the five syllables after the sixth (ṣaṣṭhakaparāḥ pañca varṇāḥ) should be light (laghavaḥ syuḥ); O woman with naturally delicate limbs (prakṛtisukumārāṅgi)! And the other three next to the last [syllables should be light] (anye ca upāntyāḥ trayaḥ varṇāḥ laghavaḥ syuḥ); O slender-bodied one (sutanu)! O woman charming with broad hips (jaghanābhogasubhage)! [The metre] in which (yasyām) there is a caesura (viratiḥ bhavati) by the flavours [and] Rudras (rasaiḥ rudraiḥ), that should be the śikhariṇī (sā śikhariṇī syāt). || 40