Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c11.186

c11.186

(iii) suffixes -ra, -rā, -rī, almost always after the caesura, and generally in decasyllabic hymns: ómātrā [x 50 5b]; candrá [i 135 4f]; tuvimātrā viii 81 2c (dimeter); tvāṣṭrá x 76 3c; dātrá iv 38 1a, [vi 20 7d]; pātrá i 121 1a, vi 44 16a, [x 50 6c, 105 10c]; bhrātrá iv 23 6b; mántra [x 50 4d 6d]; mandrá vii 9 2c; rāṣṭrá iv 23 6b, vii 84 2a; raúdra [x 61 1a 15a]; vāśrá [x 99 1b]; śrótra *x 85 11c (dimeter);