A History of Sanskrit Literature c12.50

c12.50

Metre, to which there are many scattered references in the Brāhmaṇas, is separately treated in a section of the *Çāṅkhāyana Çrauta Sūtra* (7, 27), in the last three sections (*paṭalas*) of the *Rigveda Prātiçākhya*, and especially in the *Nidāna Sūtra*, which belongs to the *Sāmaveda*. A part of the *Chhandaḥ Sūtra* of Pingala also deals with Vedic metres; but though it claims to be a Vedāṅga, it is in reality a late supplement, dealing chiefly with post-Vedic prosody, on which, indeed, it is the standard authority.