Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c14.138

c14.138

The table at the end of this section gives accordingly the proportions in which each possible form is found under each of these conditions, and also the corresponding proportions in dimeter verse, in three selected groups of hymns. To obtain the clearest possible view we take the groups of which the historical character is in other ways the most pronounced, namely (i) the lyric verse of group I (§ 91), (ii) the normal group VI, and (iii) the popular Rigveda.