नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

.XVI, 87] METRICAL PATTERNS 281

the fourteenth and the last are heavy [and the rest light] is called **Śrīdharā.**¹

Example :

snānaiś cūrṇaiḥ sukha-surabhibhir gaṇḍa-lepaiś ca dhūpaiḥ
puṣpaiś cānyaiḥ śirasi-racitair vastra-yogaiś ca tais taiḥ ।
nānā-ratnaiḥ kanaka-racitair aṅga-sambhoga-saṁsthair
vyaktaṁ kānte kamala-nilayā śrīdharêvâti bhāsi ॥

O beloved one, by your bathing, powders, pleasently fragrant paste smeared on your cheek, the [hair-perfuming] incense, flowers set on the hair (lit. head), various clothes and many jewels combined with gold worn on the limbs, you shine indeed very much like the lotus-dwelling [one] who is the goddess of beauty.

Vaṁśa-patra-patita

85. [The metre with] the feet of seventeen syllables of which the first, the fourth, the tenth and the last are heavy [and the rest light] is called the **Vaṁśa-patra-patita.**¹

Example :

eṣa gajo'dri-mastaka-taṭe kalabha-parivṛtaḥ
krīḍati vṛkṣa-gulma-gahane kusuma-bhara-nate ।
megha-ravaṁ niśamya muditaḥ pavana-java-samaḥ
sundari vaṁśa-patra-patitaṁ punar api kurute ॥

O fair lady, this elephant which surrounded by young ones is playing near the peak of the hill in the thick forest of trees and shrubs bent with flowers, is delighted to hear, the roaring of clouds and is moreover causing, like the wind, the bamboo leaves to fall [on the ground].

Vilambita-gati

87. [The metre with the] feet of seventeen syllables of which the second, the sixth, the eighth, the twelfth, the fourteenth,

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¹ Scheme (– – –, – ῠ ῠ, ῠ ῠ ῠ, – – ῠ, – – ῠ, – –). This is called Mandākrāntā by Piṅgala and his followers.
84 (C.81, B.XV.110).
85 (C.82, B.XV.111). ¹ Scheme (– ῠ ῠ, – ῠ –, ῠ ῠ ῠ, – ῠ ῠ, ῠ ῠ ῠ, ῠ –). 86 (C.83, B.XV.112). 87 (C.84, B.XV.113-114, 115),
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