Shrutabodha 46_162

46_162

Meaning: In the vocative for 'she whose locks are black like bees'! If the second, the sixth and eighth, the twelfth, and the fourteenth, after that together with the fifteenth the final, seventeenth [syllable], should be heavy, that is long. O beloved! O lovely lady! O woman whose navel is a deep pool—in the vocative for 'she whose navel is a deep pool'! In which verse the caesura occurs at [the syllables indicated by] the mountain lords, eight, and the serpent host, nine. Indeed, that syllabic metre is known as pṛthvī. Quarter-verse syllables: 17; triplets: ja, sa, ja, sa, ya, light [and heavy]; caesura: 8, 9; | S |, | | S, | S |, | | S, | S S, |, S. 41.