Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c12.s3.70

c12.s3.70

170. With very few exceptions the text accurately represents the quantities of vowels in the final syllables of stems before flexional endings. In some cases however the metre suggests restorations, namely, (i) of *a* i for *ā* *e* *ī* in dual verb-forms before the endings *-the*, *-te*, *-thām*; (ii) of *ā* for *a* in the strong cases of *uṣás*, and of *ā* for *a* in the declension of compounds of *sáh*, some nouns in *-an* and *-man*, and the adverb *viśváhā* (text often *viśváhā*), and in the locative case, and perhaps in the vocative, of nouns in *-u*; (iii) of *i* for *ī*, or the opposite, in the declension of feminine nouns in *-i* *-ī*; and (iv) regularly of *ri-* *ru-* in the formation of verbs with the suffix *-nā*, *-nī*.