Shrutabodha 46_161

46_161

Syntax: O woman with hair black as bees (alikuntale)! If (yadi) the second (dvitīyam), the sixth, the eighth, the twelfth (ṣaḍaṣṭamaṃ dvādaśam), and the fourteenth (atha caturdaśam), then (tadanu) the [syllable] next to the fifteenth (sapañcadaśam antikaṃ akṣaram) should be heavy (guru syāt); O beloved (priye)! O pool of a deep navel (gabhīranābhihrade)! O beloved (kānte)! Where (yatra) a caesura occurs (yatiḥ bhavati) by the foremost mountains and the serpent-bearer races (girīndraphaṇibhṛtkulaiḥ); O fair-browed one (subhru)! That indeed is to be known as the pṛthvī (sā hi pṛthvī jñeyā). || 41