Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c14.83

c14.83

The conclusion reached above (§ 149 i), that most of the verses in which some part of the word *indra* follows an early caesura are to be interpreted as decasyllabic, now finds support in considerations of rhythm. For in such verses the final syllable of the word is short in two instances out of every three, as is regularly the case in decasyllabic verses of the corresponding type (§ 226 i, ii) : whereas if the resolved value were correct we should expect to find the rhythm || - ◡ ◡ quite twice as often as || - ◡ ◡. These verses are therefore included with the decasyllabic verses in the Table.