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    aparavaktrā

    Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

    ☞ p. 168, col. 2.
    aparavaktrā Bahuvr. f. (-ktrā) The name of a compound metre

    regulated by number and quantity, i. e. where the stanza

    is composed of two equal and similar couplets but the

    couplets of dissimilar verses; the first verse of the couplet

    of the Aparavaktrā consists of the following eleven syllables:

    ˘˘˘˘˘˘¯˘¯˘¯, and the second: of the following

    twelve: ˘˘˘˘¯˘˘¯˘¯˘¯ ||. E. apara and vaktra.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1st ed.)

    ☞ p. 1182, col. 1.
    Apara-vaktrā, f., p. 51, read apara-vaktra, am, n.

    Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.)

    ☞ p. 50, col. 3.
    apara—vaktrā f. a kind of metre of four lines (having every two lines the same).

    Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

    ☞ vol. 1, p. 287.
    aparavaktrā (von apara + vaktra) f. N. eines Metrums (2 Mal ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘ ¯ ¯ ˘ ¯ ˘ ¯ . ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘ ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ ˘ ¯ ˘ ¯) COLEBR. Misc. Ess. II, 164. (VI, 9.)