Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c14.111

c14.111

(v) Short final syllables in the eighth place are specially common in the Vasiṣṭha hymns: if however we except those instances which occur in the verses already referred to, they are not so common as in the archaic period or in the Vāmadeva hymns. It does not therefore appear that this variation is by itself an indication of ‘secondary caesura’: but in the cases referred to it is corroboratory evidence of this type.