Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c15.51

c15.51

A group of three stanzas may be called a triplet. The principal kinds of triplets in the Rigveda are the following: (i) Uṣṇih or other homogeneous lyric triplets; (ii) triplets of mixed lyric metres, or of lyric metres combined with Gāyatrī, Triṣṭubh, or Anuṣṭubh; (iii) Gāyatrī or Anuṣṭubh triplets; (iv) triplets in which Anuṣṭubh and Gāyatrī are combined in some systematic way. In trimeter verse triplets are not common, and we defer the discussion of this point (see § 251 i).