As we "all" know by now, the "normal" count of syllables in a triSTup-verse is 11/"line". But for some reason Diirghatamas, the son of Ucathya and Maamateya, has only 10 of them on the first line of Rgveda I 164, 39:
R-co a-kSa-re pa-ra-me vyo-man To add injury to insult, the form 'vyoman' is a "crippled" form of the regular locative singular, 'vyomani', of the word, whose "basic" form, or nominative singular is, we believe, 'vyomaa'. There's a slight possibility that by leaving out the last vowel, D. has tried to emphasize the transcendental nature of 'vyomaa', that often is translated to 'heaven'. Well, whilst biking around during the first weatherwise fine afternoon in several weeks, we came up with a possible phonotactic explanation for that irregularity, or whatever, but we gots to check that out more thoroughly later on.
