Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c11.86

c11.86

Where however a verse occurring in a decasyllabic or catalectic hymn may equally well be explained as decasyllabic or catalectic respectively, a real doubt arises as to the particular case: all such instances are enclosed in square brackets below. But in decasyllabic hymns of the types described in § 94 iii b c d, and in the catalectic hymn x 26, the preference must always be given to the shorter verse-form, as being the more common in these hymns: and the restoration of the full number of syllables is therefore not suggested.