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The gomūtrikā is named after the zigzag trail a walking cow leaves. Two lines of a verse are written one beneath the other — and can be read not only straight but also in a zigzag, hopping between the rows: the text still comes out right. The secret: the even-position aksharas of both lines coincide.
प्रवृत्ते विकसद्ध्वानं साधने ऽप्य् अविषादिभिः / ववृषे विकसद्दानं युधम् आप्य् अविषाणिभिः
pravṛtte vikasaddhvānaṃ sādhane ’py aviṣādibhiḥ /
vavṛṣe vikasaddānaṃ yudham āpy aviṣāṇibhiḥ // 19.46“As the battle was joined, the undaunted [warriors] raised a swelling roar; [elephants] streaming spreading rut-fluid rained it upon the fray” (working gloss; bandha verses trade plain sense for pattern).
The specimen is Śiśupālavadha 19.46. Try both zigzags: each reproduces one of the lines.