Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c13.36

c13.36

187. With regard to the developement of syncopation it appears from the table in § 195 that in the archaic period the Uṣṇih, Kakubh-Sato-bṛhatī, and uneven lyric groups are substantially in agreement with the early Anuṣṭubh hymns: whilst the Atyaṣṭi and Bṛhatī-Sato-bṛhatī hymns, and the Gāyatrī hymns of Group III, do not widely differ from them. In the strophic period the Bṛhatī-Sato-bṛhatī and Gāyatrī hymns, and in the normal period the Gāyatrī hymns of ix 1-60, do not widely differ from the early Anuṣṭubh hymns. In all the groups named, then, the iambic forms preponderate largely over the syncopated forms.