Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c11.18

c11.18

In connection with these we have to consider the difficult question of restoration in the suffixes *-ra* and *-na*, as *índara*, *rudará*, *mántara*, *cyautaná*: and four-syllable forms of the words *násatyā*, *ādityá*, either as *náasatyā*, *aadityá* or as *násatiā*, *āditiá*.