Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c12.s3.45

c12.s3.45

(i) Long vowels appear to be found regularly before the suffix *-van*, *-var*, as *ṛtávan*, *ṛṇávān*, *sumnávārī*: and the metre suggests forms such as *maghávanaḥ* as antecedent to *maghónaḥ* etc., the occasions being v 16 3a (6), 86 3b (6), vi 65 3c (2T), ix 32 1b (6). Accordingly *matsarávā* (from a stem *matsarávan*) is a probable correction in ix 97 32c (10).