Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c15.87

c15.87

(i) v 53. In this hymn stanza 4 may be interpreted as Kakubh by reading *vásiṣu* in 4a (§ 170 iii), and thus the number of the detached Kakubh stanzas (1, 4, 10, 11) becomes equal to that of the detached Satoṛhatī stanzas (7, 9, 13, 14). As there are also two strophes (5-6, 15-16) in the hymn, and only 4 stanzas of quite different type, it seems probable that the original hymn was composed entirely in Kakubh-Satoṛhatī, but has not been faithfully preserved.