Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c6.11

c6.11

In drawing up a definitive list of the hymns of the ‘popular Rigveda,’ we are going further than our general theory, strictly understood, permits us. In the first place the two groups of hymns are not sharply divided, but overlap. In the second place the evidence available, when analyzed, consists of probabilities only: and though the concurrence of many probabilities constitutes historical certainty, this concurrence is not existent in all details.