Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c11.224

c11.224

The consideration of the Table in § 155 will enable us to justify these conclusions in detail. The Table is drawn out so as to call attention to those features which seem to be instructive: in many particulars the number of instances is so few that they give no practical guidance. By taking the numbers for the periods instead of the groups we are able to adopt a larger unit of bulk, namely 5000 trimeter verses = 7500 dimeter verses, without departing much from the actual facts. Where the figures are reckoned separately for trimeter and dimeter verses we take 5000 of each as the standard of bulk.