Śrutabodha-Saṭīka

This manuscript presents a Sanskrit commentary (ṭīkā) titled *Śrutabodhaṭīkā-vivecini* or *Bāla-vivekinī*, composed by Tārācandra as an pedagogical exposition on Kālidāsa's metrical treatise *Śrutabodha*. The text systematically elucidates the technical rules of Sanskrit prosody (chandas), particularly focusing on the identification of guru and laghu syllables through metrical definitions (paribhāṣā) and their application in āryā verse. Notable features include detailed grammatical analysis of phonological combinations (saṃyoga), vowel length, and the optional metrical weight of final syllables in pāda-endings, demonstrating the sophisticated intersection of linguistic science (śikṣā) and poetic metrics in classical Indian scholarship.