Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c10.73

c10.73

126. Words ending in *-aḥ*, *-e*, *-o* lose their final element before an initial vowel following, and are therefore all alike treated as ending in *-a* with hiatus: and similarly words ending in *-ai* and *-au* are treated as ending in *-ā*. But duals both of nouns and of verbs ending in *-e*, and the locative *tué* (*tvé*), are unaltered.