Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c17.28

c17.28

(iv) It must be noticed that the numbers given in the ‘Table of hymns’ are absolute, and not proportionate: whilst those in the Table in the next section are proportionate to each 100 verses, three dimeter verses being counted as two. The pictures in the ‘Table of hymns’ must therefore be reduced to the same proportions before they are compared with the standard pictures for each period.