Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c15.17

c15.17

With this limitation ten of the fifteen stanzas correspond to the type described. Stanza 9 is of the type 12.8.8.8.8, and stanza 15 of the type 12.8.8.8: these stanzas shew the irregularity of external structure which characterizes the uneven lyric metres. The remaining stanzas 2, 3 and 13 are described in the Anukramaṇī as Anuṣṭubh: this may be correct, but in any case some emendation is required in each, and it is quite likely that each of the original stanzas contained at least one trimeter verse. In this case they may have run somewhat as follows: