Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c14.10

c14.10

204. The general structure of trimeter verse has already been explained in §§ 18-35, 42-56; its distribution amongst the ‘homogeneous groups’ is shewn in § 114. As with dimeter verse in § 183, so now we begin a more minute study of trimeter verse by a general sketch of its most important features, and by giving in figures a precise measurement of the part filled by each in a series of groups, corresponding generally to the ‘homogeneous groups’ of § 91, but so selected as to represent those parts of the Rigveda of which the homogeneous character is most assured.