Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c12.s3.199

c12.s3.199

staván. This form occurs in the text in ii 19 5b (10), 20 5c (10), vi 24 8b (10). No such word is known in Sanskrit, and it is also strongly opposed to the metre: numerous emendations have consequently been proposed. The form sátvā satisfies all the conditions both of meaning and of metre, and I incline to restore this, not only in the passages named, but also in iii 18 4a (10), in which staván appears to have been falsely corrected to stutáh.