Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c5.s2.5

c5.s2.5

58. It is clear that the arrangement of the collections as wholes is of little or no importance to us, being based almost entirely upon mechanical considerations. Within each collection also the arrangement is generally mechanical, and therefore without value. There remains the possibility that the hymns in each collection may nevertheless be on the whole homogeneous: and this supposition is very generally confirmed by an examination of the contents of the separate collections.