[Sanskrit]

sragdhara

[poetical metre belonging to the post-Vedic period; it has 21 syllables (belonging to the "Prakrti" class) to a quarter and each pada has three sets of seven syllables. Here is nstance, from the Sakuntala, verse 7:

Gri|va | bha|ng a|bhi|ra|mam

mu|hu|r a|nu|pa|ta|ti

sya|nda|ne | da|tta | dy i|shtih.]