Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c11.183

c11.183

The extreme rarity of the form in dimeter verse, in spite of the great number of Indra hymns in Groups I and II in dimeter and lyric metres, seems to shew clearly that the word was always a disyllable to the poets of those groups. The immense majority of the occurrences being in Group III, where the decasyllabic variation prevails, the verses can most readily be explained as decasyllabic, especially as even in this group such convenient forms as índarasya, índarāya would be are never found in trimeter cadence. Hence the first real evidence for resolution occurs in the Vasiṣṭha hymns, where there are twelve instances.