Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c11.90

c11.90

(ii) Some of the corresponding cases of gó ‘cow,’ dív ‘sky,’ and páth ‘path’ are frequently disyllabic. For the acc. sing. of dív ‘sky’ we may read either díam or dyáam. The form díam is evidently permissible, since diaúḥ often occurs in the nominative: and dyáam is therefore only suggested when it is metrically preferable.