Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c12.29

c12.29

If on the other hand a word is drawn by its grammatical function to the end of the verse, the occurrences so far elude the test, as the value of the final syllable is optional. In most cases however the same words occur very commonly before the caesura also. We may then infer from the table that if the final syllable is long, the occurrences will be most common before an early caesura : if it is short, before a late caesura.