Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c14.82

c14.82

210. The syllabic variations which affect the verse as a whole are those exhibited in ‘decasyllabic verses’ (§ 49) and ‘hybrid verses’ (§ 56). Of decasyllabic verses there are many varieties (§§ 226-228), several of which develope into the distinct metres found in the decasyllabic hymns. For the moment we put aside not only these verses, but also all those that occur in the hymns in decasyllabic *Triṣṭubh* metre (§ 204 i), and consider only those verses which occur sporadically: the Table shews that these are relatively common in the archaic period, and are occasionally found in all the groups except those of Viśvāmitra and Kutsa.