नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

280 THE NATYASASTRA [ XVI. 80.

the thirteenth and the last are heavy [and the rest light] is called Śikhariṇī.¹

Example :

80. mahānadyābhoge pulinam iva te bhāti jaghanaṃ
    tathāsyaṃ netrābhyāṃ bhramara-sahitaṃ paṅkajam iva ।
    tanu-sparśaś cāyam sutanu sukumāro na paruṣaḥ
    stanābhyāṃ tuṅgābhyāṃ śikhari-nibhā bhāsi dayite ॥

Your hip is like the sand-bank at the margin of a river, your face together with the eyes, is like a lotus with the bees, the touch of your body is soft and not rough ; with your two elevated breasts you look like a hill with [two] peaks, O dear one.

Vṛṣabha-ceṣṭita

81. [The metre with the] feet of seventeen syllables of which the first five, the eleventh, the thirteenth, the fourteenth and the sixteenth are light [and the rest heavy] is called Vṛṣabha-ceṣṭita.¹

Example :

82. jalada-ninādaṃ śrutvā garjan madoccaya-darpitaḥ
    vilikhati mahīṃ śṛṅgākṣepair vṛṣaḥ pratinardya ca ।
    sva-yuvati-vṛto goṣṭhād goṣṭhaṃ prayāti ca nirbhayo
    vṛṣabha-lalitaṃ citraṃ vṛttaṃ karoti ca śādvale ॥

On hearing the thundering noise of the clouds the bull maddened with an excess of rut, is striking the earth with its horns and is bellowing in reply. And then, surrounded by young females of its class it goes fearlessly from one cow-pen to another and has the various sportive exploits on the green [pasture].

Śrīdharā

83. [The metre with] the feet of seventeen syllables of which the first four, the tenth, the eleventh, the thirteenth,

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¹ Scheme (⏑ - -, - - -, ⏑ ⏑ ⏑, ⏑ ⏑ -, - ⏑ ⏑, ⏑ -).
80 (C.77, B.XV.103).
81 (C.78, B.XV.104, 105). ¹ Scheme (⏑ ⏑ ⏑, ⏑ ⏑ -, - - -, - ⏑ -, ⏑ ⏑ -, ⏑ -). This is called Hariṇī by Piṅgala and his followers.
* 82 (C.79, B.XV.106).
83 (C.80, B.XV.107-108, 109).