Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c4.12

c4.12

The second group of questions has to do with the authority of the Saṃhitā text with regard to vowel quantities, and in particular with regard to the so-called ‘Saṃhitā lengthenings,’ that is the final vowels which are found with short quantity in the Pada-pāṭha text and in the native grammars, but (more or less regularly) with long quantity in the Saṃhitā text.