Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c5.s2.24

c5.s2.24

68. The origin of the decasyllabic verse is a matter as to which a conjecture will be hazarded later (Ch. VIII), but it is only through this stage that we can account at all for the existence of the Dvipadā Virāj or Pentad metre, which was actually brought to as polished a perfection as any metre of the Rigveda.