Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c15.22

c15.22

243. In x 22 we have an isolated but almost perfect example of an ‘uneven lyric’ hymn, the type being 11.8.8.8. The position of this hymn in the Vimada collection enables us definitely to assign it to the same period as the earliest forms of Anuṣṭubh verse (§ 201).