Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c13.2

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c13.2

182. THE Rigveda contains some 15,000 dimeter verses, which make up about one-third of its whole bulk. The general character of dimeter verse and its principal varieties have already been described in §§ 18–41 above: its distribution amongst the ‘homogeneous groups’ is shewn in § 114. The statements already made, which will form the basis of the discussion in the present chapter, may be shortly recapitulated as follows:

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