Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c12.s3.6

c12.s3.6

Here must be included the *dvandva* duals, the prior element having usually the long vowel not only in the nom. voc. acc. form, but also in the oblique cases. The text gives regularly *índrāvíṣṇū*, *mitráváruṇā*, *súryāmásā*, and so forth: and *índrāvāyú* must in all instances be restored, as is clear from the fact that it never stands at the end of Triṣṭubh verse, or in any other position in which *a* is favoured. Other restorations favoured by the metre are *mítrā ... váruṇā* i 151 6b and iv 1 18d (2T, 7A), *mítrā- v* 62 3b (2T), 66 6b (2D).