Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c11.215

c11.215

In the earliest parts of the Rigveda, namely Groups I–III, an additional syllable must frequently be restored in the flexion of monosyllabic root-stems, and in the genitive plural ending. In the later groups this restoration decreases rapidly in frequency, except that the fuller form of the genitive plural remains much longer in common use in dimeter cadence than the other forms.