Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c12.13

c12.13

The various positions in the verse may be shortly denoted as follows: initial and final syllables by the letters In, Fin: the fourth to the seventh place in dimeter verse by the numerals 4, 5, 6, 7, and the same positions in trimeter verse by these numbers followed by A or B according as the caesura is early or late: the eighth to the tenth (or eleventh) place in trimeter verse by the respective numerals.