Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c10.32

c10.32

Locatives in -ā are frequently found before consonants within the verse, but there are only four cases of combination with a following vowel, namely in vi 12 2b, *viii 91 1b, *x 101 11b (text -ā), and vii 39 3b (text -āv). The text also gives -ā before u- (Lanman, Noun-Inflection in the Veda, p. 386): but in these cases it would seem right to restore -āv rather than postulate hiatus.