Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c15.79

c15.79

(i) There are about 20 varieties of stanza belonging to the Atyaṣṭi group: their common features are that they have at least five verses to the stanza, of which two at least are trimeter and two at least dimeter, and that (with rare exceptions) the stanza begins with a trimeter and ends with a dimeter verse.