Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c15.44

c15.44

(iii) In x 105 the normal type of the stanza is 11.7.11; this is found in the text in stanzas 1, 2 and 10, and is still more clearly proved by the form of the final stanza, in which each of the two last verses is doubled, giving the type 11.7.7.11.11. In 7a we have a trimeter verse of 12 syllables, unless we substitute *dásyu* as an abbreviated form for *dásyave*: 8a has a double rest, 8b is a full dimeter verse, and 9a appears to be a dimeter verse, although it is easy to restore a trimeter verse in the shape *ūrdhuá* ‖ *tretínī yád bhúut te*. The most difficult stanzas are those from 3 to 6, which may perhaps be restored somewhat as follows: