Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c14.30

c14.30

The verses in the Vasiṣṭha group which combine one of the features last mentioned with a pause after the eighth syllable amount to about one-sixth of all the verses in these hymns, and roughly account for the higher proportion of each of the separate variations in these hymns. It therefore appears that it is the combination of the pause with some other feature which characterizes this collection, and in the Table in § 212 the instances in which the combination occurs are considered separately.