[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Auxiliary Sciences of the Veda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga) › [Metrics (prosody)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda) › [Śrutabodha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt) › 46 # Shrutabodha 46 English (machine translation) 46 - **Language:** English ### [46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.46) 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 - [Previous: 40\_158](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.40_158) - [Next: 46\_159](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.46_159) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.46) · Pramāṇa