Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c15.118

c15.118

(iv) Groups of ten stanzas are probably due to the influence of the Pentad hymns (§ 249): they may be traced in i 71-73; iii 5-7, 34-36; iv 19-23; ix 68-70. Hymns of eleven stanzas may be explained in the same way, by the addition of a concluding stanza: possible examples are i 53, 54, 185, 186; x 48, 49.