Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c14.31

c14.31

(i) The caesura is usually a pause in the sense as well as in the sound. It is not however absolutely necessary that this should be so: and we find numerous examples in the Rigveda in which the caesura separates either (a) the two parts of a *dvandva* dual, or (b) an accented word from an enclitic which follows it, or (c) the negative particle or the augment *a-*, when combined by Sandhi with a word preceding, from the remainder of the word to which either of them belongs. As these occurrences seem to have no historical importance, it will be sufficient to give a few examples here: namely