Shrutabodha 46

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Meaning: O you whose eyes (nayane = netre) are like lotuses (kamale = padme)—in the vocative; when (yadā = in which verse), the first syllable (pūrvaḥ = prathamaḥ varṇaḥ) should be short (hrasvaḥ = laghuḥ syāt); thereafter (tataḥ = paścāt), the five syllables (pañca varṇāḥ = five syllables) after the sixth syllable (ṣaṣṭhakaparāḥ = ṣaṣṭhākṣarataḥ agre) should be light (laghavaḥ = hrasvāḥ syuḥ); O you whose limbs (aṅgāni = śarīrāṇi) are naturally (prakṛtyā = svabhāvena) delicate (sukumārāṇi = komalāni)—in the vocative! And the other (anye = itare ca) three (trayaḥ) syllables next to the last (upāntyāḥ = antyasamīpasthāḥ)—namely the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth syllables—should be light; O slender-bodied one (sutanu)! O woman charming with broad hips (jaghanābhogasubhage)! Beautiful (subhagā = suśobhanā) by the expanse (ābhogena = pṛthutvena) of both hips (jaghanayoḥ), and whose body (tanuḥ) is very shapely (suṣṭhu)—in the vocative! In which syllabic metre (yasyāṃ = vṛttau) a caesura (viratiḥ = yatiḥ) occurs (bhavati = jāyate) by the flavours (rasaiḥ = by six) [and] by the Rudras (rudraiḥ = by eleven), that syllabic metre of that name should be the śikhariṇī (sā asau śikhariṇī-tadākhyā vṛttiḥ syāt). Syllables per quarter-verse: 17; triplets: ya, ma, na, sa, bha, light, heavy; caesura: 6, 11; [pattern:] |ss, sss, |||, ||s, s||, |s. || 40