Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c15.105

c15.105

Of the remaining verses 12 have the Virāṭsthānā ending, but appear to have five syllables in the opening. Here, if the text is correct, we seem to have contamination of the two metres. But in 4c 6a it is possible to omit *indra* as a gloss, and in 6b it seems desirable to read *stavā* for *stavāma*: in 3a 17a *ukthéṣu nú*, *ugréṣu nú* seem more probable than *ukthéṣvid nú*, *ugrésvid nú*. In 9d 10b 12d 13c 17b 19a 20a the verse certainly has eleven syllables. There are 4 regular Triṣṭubh verses only, namely 1d 2b 8d 12b, and 5 which shew various irregularities other than those already described, namely 3b 7d 10d 15c 17d.