Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c14.402

c14.402

229. ‘Hybrid verses’ (§ 56) are most common in the popular Rigveda, and are there doubtless to be explained by contamination. But there are also a few examples in the earlier parts of the Rigveda, and particularly in the decasyllabic Triṣṭubh hymns. ‘Hybrid’ Jagatī verses are very rare.