नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

268 THE NATYASASTRA [ XVI. 30.

Example :

30. eso'mbuda-nisvana-tulya-ravaḥ kṣībaḥ skhalamāna-vilamba-gatiḥ । śrutvā ghana-garjitam adri-tate vṛkṣān prati moṭayati dviradaḥ ॥

This elephant hearing the clouds roaring in the mountain valley, is trumpeting in excitement as loudly as the [rain] clouds and is rushing with faltering steps to the trees.

Indra-vajrā

31. [The metre with] the feet of eleven syllables of which the third, the sixth, the seventh and the ninth are light, [and the rest heavy] is called Indra-vajrā¹.

Example :

32. tvaṃ durṇirīkṣyā duratiprasādā duḥkhaika-sādhyā kaṭhinaika-bhāvā । sarvāsv avasthāsu ca kāma-tantre' yogyāsi kiṃ vā bahunêndravajrā ॥

You are hard to be looked at, difficult to be pleased and won over, and you have an unmixed ( lit, one ) hard feeling, in the practice of love, you are unfit (ayogya) at every stage ; and in short you are [like] the thunder-bolt of Indra.

Upendravajrā

33. [The metre with] the feet of eleven syllables of which the first, the third, the sixth, the seventh, the ninth are light [and the rest heavy] is called Upendravajrā¹.

Example :

34. priye śriyā varṇa-viśeṣaṇena smitena kāntyā sukumār-bhāvāt । amī guṇā rūpa-guṇānurūpā bhavanti te kiṃ tvam upendravajrā ॥

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30 (C.27, B.XV.41).
31 (C.28, B.XV.42). ¹ Scheme (-- u, -- u, u - u, --).
32 (C.29, B.XV.43).
33 (C.30, B.XV.44). ¹ Scheme (u - u, -- u, u - u, --).
34 (C.31, B.XV.45).