Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c6.10

c6.10

But in the case of short hymns, and still more in that of detached verses, characteristic features may be altogether wanting, or so scanty as to give room for the play of chance. If however we can group together in any way these shorter hymns and fragments, it is possible that a general character will come to light in the group as a whole. For example, the single Triṣṭubh stanzas appended to many hymns, taken together, resemble in character the Rigveda proper: whereas the corresponding Anuṣṭubh stanzas resemble the popular Rigveda. Such generalizations are often of use in determining roughly the position of the single stanzas, although the inference may not be finally justified in certain cases.