Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c17.3

c17.3

But in the six chapters which have followed, of which three have been occupied with the establishment of a metrically correct text, and three with the ascertainment of the laws of metre, we have met with a mass of evidence which has a considerable bearing upon the grouping of the hymns, and which does not in every particular support the rearrangement which was adopted as a basis.