Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c13.35

c13.35

For other metres this distinction is not made in the table. In all the lyric metres irregularities are twice as common in verses beginning a distich as in those concluding it: in Gāyatrī those in the first, second, and third verses are respectively in the ratios of 5, 3, and 2, in all parts of the Rigveda. As to verses of four syllables see § 192.