नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

284 THE NĀṬYAŚĀSTRA [ XVI. 97-

Your eyes are like lotus-patals, beautiful with the bow-like eyebrows and their ends are playfully lazy ; the cheeks and lips are plump in their middle, the teeth are all equal, in a line, thickly set and shining, the ears are hanging down as far as the shoulders, the chin is bent and the nose is beautiful, O fair lady, in this mortal world you are indeed the only fair-faced woman whose face has been [carefully] fashioned.

Sragdharā

97-98. [The metre with] the feet of twentyone syllables of which the first four, the sixth, the seventh, the fourteenth, the fifteenth, the seventeenth, the eighteenth, the twentieth and the last are heavy [and the rest light] is called Sragdharā.¹

Example :

cutāśokāravindaiḥ kuruvaka-tilakaiḥ karṇikāraiḥ śirīṣaiḥ
punnāgaiḥ pārijātair vakula-kuvalayaiḥ kiṁśukaiḥ sātimuktaiḥ ।
etair nānā-prakāraiḥ kusuma-surabhibhir viprakīrṇaiś ca tais tair
vāsantaiḥ puṣpa-vṛndair naravara vasudhā sragdharêvâdya bhāti ॥

O king (lit. best among men), due to the many and various sweet smelling vernal flowers such as, Cūta, Aśoka, Aravinda, Kuravaka, Tilaka, Karṇikāra, Śirīṣa, Punnāga, Pārijāta, Vakula, Kuvalaya, Kiṁśuka and Atimukta, this earth looks today like a woman wearing [many] garlands of flowers.

Madraka

100-101. [The metre with] the feet of twentytwo syllables of which the first, the fourth, the sixth, the tenth, the twelfth, the sixteenth, the eighteenth, and the last are heavy [and the rest light] is called Madraka¹.

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97-98 (C.94-95, B.XV.128-129, 130). ¹ Scheme (---, - ᑌ -, - ᑌ ᑌ, ᑌ ᑌ ᑌ, ᑌ -, -, ᑌ - - ᑌ - -). 99 (C.96, B.XV.131).
100-101 (C.97-98, B.XV.132-133, 134). ¹ Scheme (- ᑌ ᑌ, - ᑌ -, ᑌ ᑌ ᑌ, - ᑌ -, ᑌ ᑌ ᑌ, - ᑌ -, ᑌ ᑌ ᑌ, -).