Chapter One.
The Metrics of the Rigveda.
The Vedic verses are made up of series of eight, eleven or twelve syllables are formed, besides which are used less frequently there is a five-syllable series. These rows (Padas) are the Units with which the ancient Indian metric has to do; within it shows the measurement and distribution of the metric matter to be designed, the long and the short Syllables, not or at least not consistently those sharp and fixed expression, which requires a return to smaller inputs units, on feet like in the Greek metric, possible would do. Only the conclusion of the Pada has a firm one or at least comparatively fixed regulation of the change of lengths and shortenings. It's the last four or five syllables of the series that are attached to a rule in this way are tied in such a way that lengths and shortenings are change. The five-syllable series alone lacks this Given their small size, the opposite is natural unordered input and an ordered output. It is fixed in its entire extent as a relation definitely to watch. The divorce of the ordered and the unordered part, then with the eleven and twelve syllables rows of the caesura form the only divisions of the
