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 1 Intro,  2 |         the Rigveda the number of stanzas contained in each hymn,
 2 Intro,  2 |         and the metres of all the stanzas of the Rigveda. Thanks to
 3 Intro,  3 |           a total of about 10,600 stanzas, which give an average Of
 4 Intro,  3 |      which give an average Of ten stanzas to each hymn. The shortest
 5 Intro,  3 |            groups' of five or six stanzas. The other division is into
 6 Intro,  4 |         the diminishing number of stanzas contained in them. Thus
 7 Intro,  4 |        begins with one of sixteen stanzas and ends with one of only
 8 Intro,  4 |    twenty-one, the last only four stanzas. The entire group of the
 9 Intro,  4 |        decreasing number of their stanzas, beginning with ten and
10 Intro,  4 |        and another of fifty-eight stanzas), this arrangement is not
11 Intro,  4 |         first are, excepting four stanzas, composed in Gayatri, while
12 Intro,  6 |        contain on the average ten stanzas, generally of four verses
13 Intro,  6 | two-thirds of the total number of stanzas in the RV. The Vedic metres,
14 Intro,  6 |           the Rigveda consists of stanzas in the same metre throughout;
15 Intro,  6 |           consist either of three stanzas (called trca) in the same
16 Intro,  6 |      generally Gayatri, or of two stanzas in different mixed metres.
17 Intro,  7 |        mentioned only in detached stanzas of the RV., comes down from
18 Intro,  7 |     referred to only in scattered stanzas of the RV. He is described
19 Intro,  7 |          a dozen more in detached stanzas. By far the largest number
20 Intro,  8 |          a long poem of fifty-two stanzas (i. 164), in which a number
21 Intro,  8 |           to appendages of 3 to 5 stanzas attached to over thirty
22 Intro,  10|           and a great many single stanzas or passages are still obscure
23 Intro,  10|       B.C.) on about 600 detached stanzas of the RV.; for he quotes
24   2       |        hymns and in many detached stanzas as well. He is pre-eminently
25   5       |       Prthiv in only one of three stanzas. The dual compound Dyáva-Prthiví,
26   8       |            35), is invoked in two stanzas of a hymn to the Waters,
27  20       |           meant in the successive stanzas are: 1. Soma, 2. Agni, 3.
28  26       |          in some twenty scattered stanzas of the Rigveda.~