Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c10.16

c10.16

The Saṃhitā text takes as its unit the *distich*, or pair of trimeter or dimeter verses. But the appearance of hiatus seems to be quite as common at the end of verses *a* and *c* as at the end of verses *b* and *d*, and very much commoner at the end of the verse than at the caesura.