Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c11.121

c11.121

143. The restoration of *-aam* for *-ām* in the genitive plural of all declensions is required in about one-third of the occurrences. A great number of the instances are at the end of lyric or dimeter verse, and others fall near the caesura in trimeter verse : but a sufficient number of examples remain to shew that a metrical explanation is inadequate, even if it could be supposed that the large proportion of instances was not a sufficient proof of the reality of forms in *-aam*.