Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c6.23

c6.23

In those cases in which the evidence is not quite sufficient to justify us in assigning a hymn to the popular Rigveda, it will generally be probable that it is not very much earlier in date, and therefore that we may have reason to refer it later to some period other than that of the earliest literature, that is, either to the ‘normal’ or the ‘cretic’ period.