After what I have said before on the real character of the teaching of the Prâtisâkhya, I need not show again that the fact of Uvata's counting to of dadhîta as the tenth syllable is of no importance in determining the real nature of these hymns, though it is of importance, as Professor Kuhn remarks (Beiträge, vol. iii, p. 451), in showing that Uvata considered himself at perfect liberty in counting or not counting, for his own purposes, the elided syllable of avase.

VII, 4, 6. m̆â̄psăvāh părĭ shădâ̄m̍ă mâ̄dŭvāh.

§6.  ̆  ̄  ̄  ̄.

Final pâdas of Trishtubhs ending in  ̆  ̄  ̄  ̄ are very scarce. In VI, 1, 4,

bhadrâyâm te ranayantă sāmdri̅shtaū,

it would be very easy to read bhadrâyâm te samdrishtau rănăyāntā; and in X, 74, 2,

dy̆aūr nă vâ̄rēbhīh krĭnăvāntă svăīh,

we may either recognise a Gâgata pâda, or read

dy̆aūr nă vâ̄rēbhīh krĭn̍ăvāntă svaīh,

which would agree with the metre of hymn X, 77.

§ 7.  ̄  ̄  ̆  ̄

Pâdas ending in  ̄  ̄  ̆  ̄ do not occur as final in any Traishtubha hymn, but as many Gâgata pâdas occur in the body of Traishtubha hymns, we have to scan them as dodecasyllabic:

I, 63, 4a. tv̆ām hā tyăd īndr̆ă kōd̆î̄h săkhâ̄.

IV, 26, 6b. părâ̄vătāh săkŭnō māndr̆ām mădām.

The adjective pâvaka which frequently occurs at the end of final and internal pâdas of Trishtubh hymns has always

to be scanned p̆â̄văkā. Cf. IV, 51, 2; VI, 5, 2; 10, 4; 51, 3; VII, 3, 1; 9; 9, 1b; 56, 12; X, 46, 7b.