Syllable Stress
"Syllables are either heavy or light. Heavy syllables contain either a long vowel [eg. ā, ī, ō, ū], or a short vowel followed by two or more consonants. Light syllables contain a short vowel, either at the end of a word or followed by a single consonant. Remember that aspirated letters, such as bh, are single consonants. Generally, the stress falls on the heavy syllable closest to the end of a word but not the last syllable.
Examples: tu-rī-ya and su-ṣup-ti; man-van-ta-ra and pra-jā-pa-ti; but u-pa-ni-ṣad (which has no heavy syllable)" (p.9).
Most relevant here: Ma-hā-bhā-ra-ta - Abhinavagupta's Lo-ca-na (c as church)
Most relevant consonants
ś and ṣ - ship, āśraya
j - jail, rāja
c - church, Locana
ṛ - ri, Kṛṣṇa
th - aspirated t
ph - aspirated p
bh - aspirated b