Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c12.33

c12.33

For the forms used in the text, see § 177 i. From the table in § 164 it will be seen at once that the general distribution of the syllables concerned closely corresponds to the average for long syllables as shewn in § 157 : and the only doubt that arises is whether the few occurrences in group E are due to metrical or quantitative irregularity.