Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c14.93

c14.93

Apart from the Vasiṣṭha hymns, these variations are most common in the archaic period, but are also occasionally used later. But the ‘Vāsiṣṭhī verse’ (§ 205 iii) is very common in some of the later collections also, for instance in the Viśvāmitra hymns and the collection x 29–80: whereas the form with caesura after the third syllable is hardly found later than the strophic period.