Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c12.s3.12

c12.s3.12

purú-: the compounds have commonly u, sometimes ū. The words purutáma, purubhúj, are sometimes found at the beginning of the stanza, or the end of the dimeter of Jagatī verse, in which positions ū is favoured; sometimes after an early caesura, where u is favoured but is not certain. In purutáma the text follows the metre: if rightly, we should restore purubhúj in i 3 1c (2D), v 73 1c (6), viii 8 17b (6), 10 6a (10). But purúvāsu has always the long vowel, probably even in vi 22 4d, vii 38 1d (both 6A).