Wilson Philological Lectures on Sanskrit and the Derived Languages c6.29

c6.29

These eight verses contain 72 different padas or grammatical forms, not counting the prepositions as separate padas. Of these 19 have become altogether obsolete in classical Sanskrit, and 12 have changed their significations. This, however, is a specimen of one of the more intelligible hymns, but there are a great many which contain a much larger proportion of words that have gone out of use. It is these obsolete words that constitute the chief difficulty of understanding the Vedic hymns.