Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c12.24

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c12.24

If now we take 1000 occurrences of undoubted long vowels, taken at random from hymns which contain the same proportion of trimeter and dimeter verse as the whole Rigveda, and then 1000 occurrences of undoubted short vowels taken in the same way, we find them distributed amongst the various possible positions as follows:

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