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# Shrutabodha 46\_174

English (machine translation) 46\_174

- **Language:** English

### [46\_174](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.srutabodha~en-mt.46_174)

Meaning: Through the division into equal, half-equal, and uneven, a syllabic metre is of three kinds.  
Definitions of equal, half-equal, and uneven syllabic metres:  
That whose four feet are marked by identical definitions, / those who know the truth of the science of metrics declare to be an equal syllabic metre. || 1  
That syllabic metre whose third quarter-verse is equal to the first foot, / and whose second is like the fourth, is called half-equal. || 2  
That whose four quarter-verses have definitions distinct from one another, / the experts in the science of metrics call an uneven syllabic metre. || 3

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