Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c15.108

c15.108

In the Bhārgavī strophes there are 14 verses out of 30 which do not conform to either of the Bhārgavī types (§ 52): of these verses 5 have eleven syllables and 9 have twelve, but all agree in shewing Jagatī cadence. There can therefore be no doubt that we have to deal with a variation of Jagatī verse, though the Anukramaṇī by means of counting the syllables discovers most of them to be Triṣṭubh.