[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [Vedic Metre in its Historical Development](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.arnold-1905) › c19.s3 # Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c19.s3: Maṇḍala III Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c19.s3 - **Language:** English ### Maṇḍala III ### [c19.s3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.arnold-1905.c19.s3.1) \[This collection is singularly homogeneous: it is also very regular, but characterized by a fairly frequent use of the Vāsiṣṭhī verse. See § 110 i.\] ### [c19.s3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.arnold-1905.c19.s3.2) ¹ 1c \*dídiat\*; 2a \*cakrmā\*; 6a \*vavrája\*; 15d \*dámia\*; 16b \*dhániā\*; 23c \*siát\*. 2. 7c \*sá\*; 8a \*namasyátā\*; 8b \*dámia\*; 11d \*vásū\* (plur.). 3. 7a \*su-apatyé\* : \*áyavi\* is probable. 4. 9b \*siasva\*, § 148 vi. 5. 2a \*prá íd ū\*. 6. 1b \*nayatā\*; 3a \*diaúḥ\*; 6c \*vahā\*: probably Virāṭsthānā verse; 10c \*prácī ’dhv-\*, § 128 ii: but \*prák\* or \*prácā\* as an adverb is more probable. 7. 5d \*gánia\*; 6a, 10c \*utá\*. 8. 3b \*prthiviáḥ\*; 7c \*viantu\*; 9a \*śrayiṇíśaḥ\*. 10. 3c \*sá’gne\* with Sandhi. 11. 6a probably \*abhīyújaḥ\*, § 167 iii. 13. 1b catalectic verse; 7a \*rāsvā\*. 14. 2b \*túbhya\*; 6a \*tuát\*. 15. 5a \*śármā\*; 6a \*pipayā\*. ### [c19.s3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.arnold-1905.c19.s3.3) ¹⁶ For the metre see § 94 viii; 5b perhaps \*avíratāya\* (neuter); 6c \*sṛjā\*, and see § 213 ii. 17. 3d \*bhavā\*. 18. 2a \*tápā\*; 4a \*sátvā\*, § 178. 19. 3b \*śíkṣā, su-apatyá\*; 4c \*vahā\*. ### [c19.s3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.arnold-1905.c19.s3.4) ²⁰ 1a \*uṣásam\*, § 170 ii a; 1c \*śṛṇuantu\*, § 147; 2c \*ū\*; 5d \*ādityán\*, giving irregular break (§ 218 vi), followed by short eighth and tenth syllables: this seems more probable than reading \*aadityán\* and then Jagatī cadence. 21. 5c \*stokáḥ ścotanti te vaso\* is a probable arrangement. 22. 1a \*sá\* and perhaps \*yásmi\*; 1d \*sasanván\*. 23. 4a Rest at the fifth place. 24. 1b \*ápāsiā\*. 26. 1a \*nicáyia\*. 27. 2c perhaps \*dhitávanam\*, § 170 ii; 14a \*vṛṣā\*; 15c \*dídiatam\*; \*28 see p. 42; \*29 see p. 42; 2a \*aráṇioḥ\*; 4b \*prthiviáḥ\*; 6c perhaps \*ánīvṛta\*, § 167 i; 8a \*sídā\*; 9b \*itanā\*. ### [c19.s3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.arnold-1905.c19.s3.5) ³⁰ 4d \*nímite ’va\*; 13d \*kármā\* (plur.); 15a \*díhyā\*; 20c \*suaryávah, túbhya\*; 21c \*diváksā ’si\*: for the Sandhi see § 130 ii; 21d \*sú\*. 31. 2a \*tánua\*; 9c \*nú\*; 13a \*yádi\*; 13b \*ródasīyoḥ\*, § 173 ii; 14d \*sú\*; 15a \*purucandrám\*; 20c extended Triṣṭubh verse, unless we correct by reading \*índra tvám naḥ\*. 32. 6b for the possible Sandhi see § 130 iii : but \*sártavā u\* is probably the right reading, § 171 v; 8a \*kármā\*; 15a \*suáhā\*, § 145 vi; 16b \*ná\* ‘not’ with hiatus. ### [c19.s3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.arnold-1905.c19.s3.6) ³³ \*13a Epic Anuṣṭubh semi-cadence. ### [c19.s3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.arnold-1905.c19.s3.7) ³⁴ 6b \*kármā\*; 7b \*devébhiaḥ\*; 8b \*sasanvámsam\*; 9d \*prá ’riam\*. 35. 3a \*úpa\*; 7d \*túbhya\*; 9d, 10a \*píbā\*. 36. 1d \*mahábhiḥ\*, § 178; 6b \*rathío ’va\*; 9a \*bharā\*. 38. 2d \*nú\*; 5a \*jíāyān\*; 7c \*asuríyam\*. 39. 8c \*bhúrí\* cit probably. ### [c19.s3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.arnold-1905.c19.s3.8) 40. 2b haryā; 3a dhitávanam, § 170 ii c; 5a dadhiṣvá. 41. 6a mandasva. 43. 5c mè ’rṣim: for the Sandhi see § 130 i; 7a píbā. 44. 2a uṣásam, § 170 ii. 45. 1b yāhí; 2c hárioh. 46. 5a -díāvā, § 145 vi. 47. 2c jahí; 3c tuā. 48. 3a upastháyā. 49. 1a perhaps yásmi, § 178; 2a nú; 2d áyu, § 178. ### [c19.s3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.arnold-1905.c19.s3.9) 51. 10b rādhānaam. \*52. See p. 43; 6c tuā; 8a bharatā. 53. 2d no caesura, § 214; 4d dhanuā, § 147; 11a prétā; 11c extended Triṣṭubh verse; 16c catalectic verse; \*17c pātalye (y cons.), § 135 a; \*22c Epic Anuṣṭubh semi-cadence. 54. 1c dámia; 4a utá; 4d pṛthivī; 17b bhávathā; 20c aadityaíḥ, § 150. 55. 1a uṣásaḥ, § 170 ii; 2a má; 3b didie; 17b sá ’nyásmin; 18a, 18b nú. 56. 3b tri-ūdhá is not required by the metre, but seems probable. 57. 5d sādayā: ca, § 175 ii; 6d rásvā. ### [c19.s3.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.arnold-1905.c19.s3.10) 58. 6b apparently jahnáviām, with irregular cadence. 59. 2d hypersyllabic verse, § 224: Sandhi combination of all the words in the first part of the verse is unlikely. 60. 5d matsuā; 6b śáciā. 61. 4b probably uṣá á yāti. 62. 1b tújia; 2a ū; 4c rásvā; 7a pūṣan, but see § 177 iii; 7c túbhya; 15a áyu; 16a abhí should probably be read for á, a heptasyllabic verse being improbable in this collection: perhaps mitra varuṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.1.1) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.arnold-1905.c19.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.arnold-1905.c19.s3) · Pramāṇa