Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c19.s8.1

c19.s8.1

A. IX 1-67. [This large collection of Gāyatrī hymns does not correspond to any collection or set of collections addressed to other deities. A few of the hymns may have belonged originally to such collections as those of Kaṇva or Kuśika: the majority must be imitations of these, and from the regularity of their structure cannot be earlier than the normal period.]