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अपरवक्त्रा (aparavaktrA)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
अपर—वक्त्रा
f.
a kind of metre of four lines (having every two lines the same).
Monier Williams 1872
English
अपर-वक्त्रा, f., p. 51, read अपर-वक्त्र, अम्, n.
Goldstucker
English
अपरवक्त्रा Bahuvr. f. (-क्त्रा) 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. अपर and वक्त्र.