laghu

लघु laghu

A 'light', or short, syllable of one matra; one of the two units from which a metre is built, paired with the heavy syllable.

Where this term appears

Keeping the Sound Treatise
Pingala observed that every syllable in a metre is one of two things. It is laghu , light or short, or it is guru , heavy or long.
The Six Amnayas Treatise
…Sharika Shyamala , Sangita Shyamala , Venu Shyamala , Vina Shyamala , Laghu Matangi , Hasanti Shyamala , and Sumukhi ); Gayatri in her Tripada and Chatushpada forms; Mahaganapati in his sixteen forms ( Siddhi ,…