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The stotra is in panchachaamara chhanda, in which there are 16
varna-s per line, each line begins with a laghu and the laghu and guru varna-s
alternate. So there are eight LG (laghu-guru) pairs, making up 16 syllables of
each line. The last shloka is in Vasanta-tilakaa metre.

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