Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c9.3

c9.3

90. It is not practicable to define the limits of any of the first nine groups with the same accuracy with which the popular Rigveda has been defined. It is nevertheless desirable to revise the groups as presented in the Saṃhitā text, in order that at least those individual hymns which are in most striking disagreement with the groups to which they belong in the text may be separated from them, and also that these hymns, as well as those which belong to those parts of the Saṃhitā which are not homogeneous, may find some appropriate place in the grouping, and thus be brought under review in our examination of the metre.