Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c15.95

c15.95

All the Pentad hymns are arranged in strophes consisting of five double stanzas, but some add a final stanza, so that the total number is 10, 11, or 21. In ix 109 there is also an additional stanza in another metre (8.4.8) which hardly seems to belong to the hymn. The number of stanzas in the strophe thus corresponds exactly to the number of syllables in the verse.