Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c12.54

c12.54

In all these endings the occurrences in groups A and B so greatly outnumber those in D and E (see Table, § 164) that we are likely generally to be in the right in assuming long quantity not only in occurrences in A and B, but also in those in C. This implies a very considerable departure from the practice of the text, for which see § 176 ii. The occurrences in D may be taken to be those of the short vowels: but as in all cases but one a consonant-group follows, this is not certain, and the metre is not affected.