Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c4.9

c4.9

Although my position has not yet won acceptance, I have received encouragement from more than one quarter to proceed to the publication of my views in a complete form. In so doing I have endeavoured to reduce controversy to a minimum, and to give instead with all possible fulness the materials from which I have drawn my own conclusions, but by which others in turn may be led to form more or less divergent views. I have not dropped the thread of historical theory which to my mind binds together in proper order a large collection of facts: but even if this thread be not altogether sound, the collections themselves can hardly fail to be of service to future students.