[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [Vedic Metre in its Historical Development](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.arnold-1905) › c13.167 # Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c13.167 Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c13.167 - **Language:** English ### [c13.167](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.arnold-1905.c13.167) (v) The use of the trochaic cadence cannot be restricted to any one period. It is systematic in the Vimada hymn x 20, belonging to a group which we have reason to think one of the earliest in the Rigveda: but the longest hymn in Trochaic Gāyatrī is viii 2, which belongs to a Kaṇva group and records the name of more than one member of the Kaṇva family: whilst in iii 16 we find trochaic cadence in a Bṛhatī hymn, the metre being characteristic of a Maṇḍala which contains few, if any, hymns earlier than the normal period. - [Previous: c13.166](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.arnold-1905.c13.166) - [Next: c13.168](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.arnold-1905.c13.168) - [Up: c13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.arnold-1905.c13) ## Cites (1) - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.10.20) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.arnold-1905.c13.167](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.arnold-1905.c13.167) · Pramāṇa