Vedic Metre in its Historical Development
Statistical analysis of Ṛgvedic metres (gāyatrī, triṣṭubh, jagatī …) and of linguistic and metrical criteria; it divides the hymns into chronological strata, with a table classifying them.
- Language
- English
- Author
- E. Vernon Arnold
- Extent
- 2,911 passages, 132,208 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Cambridge: University Press, 1905; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections by… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (E. Vernon Arnold †1926); published before 1931: public…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 4 parts
- c2 Vedic Metre in its Historical Development — 5 parts
- c3 Dem Andenken Rudolfs von Roth — 5 parts
- c4 Preface — 23 parts
- c5 Chapter I — 38 parts
- c6 Chapter II — 23 parts
- c7 Appendix I — 63 parts
- c8 Appendix II — 1 part
- c9 Chapter III — 5 parts
- c10 Chapter IV — 109 parts
- c11 Chapter V. Syllabic Restoration — 251 parts
- c12 Chapter VI — 133 parts
- c13 Chapter VII. Dimeter Verse — 179 parts
- c14 Chapter VIII. Trimeter Verse — 448 parts
- c15 Chapter IX — 123 parts
- c16 Appendix III. The Various Forms of the Stanza — 11 parts
- c17 Chapter X — 30 parts
- c18 Appendix IV — 10 parts
- c19 Chapter XI. Metrical Commentary — 9 parts
- c20 Corrigenda and Addenda — 2 parts
- c21 Index of Subjects — 33 parts
- c22 Sanskrit Index — 44 parts