Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c14.20

c14.20

The special features which occur in the uneven lyric hymns and in decasyllabic hymns of the two classes will therefore be discussed in this chapter primarily from the standpoint of their occurrence as occasional variations in other hymns. The hymns in decasyllabic Triṣṭubh will also be considered in this chapter as a special class: but the consideration of the hymns in uneven lyric metres and in decasyllabic metres, so far as their respective characteristic features are concerned, will be postponed to the next chapter.