Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c11.239

c11.239

The occasions for these rapidly diminish throughout the Rigveda proper: this may be explained in individual cases either by the gradual disuse of archaic forms or by the increasing strictness of the metre. In the popular Rigveda the number increases, and a large proportion may be cases in which no restoration is really required, the metre being in fact disordered. The doubtful cases included in this section number rather more than one-tenth of the whole number considered in this chapter.