Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c12.12

c12.12

These general rules, with the exception of the last, which will be the subject of discussion later, follow directly from the description of the Vedic rhythms in §§ 31 to 47. It will however be of advantage to base them upon direct experiment applied to undisputed long and short final vowels, since the most important questions have to do with final vowels: and also to express the results by symbols which will readily lend themselves to the numerical calculations upon which we have to rely.