Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c11.233

c11.233

(a) The history of the enclitic tvā is the clearest proof of the real occurrence of resolution of original v due to a preceding heavy syllable. Although this change as a whole is of equal importance in all parts of the Rigveda, it is not necessarily so in each separate class; the values -bhiaḥ, -bhiām seem to be distinctly increasing in frequency throughout the Rigveda, and the gerund ending -tuā is quite common in the Atharvaveda though not found in any part of the Rigveda.