Martin Gansten wrote:

pankajdubey wrote:Is it true that the Epic sanskrit was quite liberal grammatically and the authors would use ungrammatical construct to fit with the metre ?

No, I think putting it like that would be overstating the case. But the Sanskrit epics (which are many centuries later than the Vedic hymns discussed earlier in this thread, so comparing them is similar to comparing Beowulf with Shakespeare) did originate as oral, bardic poetry and may contain occasional turns of phrase that do not conform to standard grammatical rules.

the grammatical irregularities are very often found at metrically relevant position of the stanza.

I'm not sure what that means -- which position in a stanza would not be metrically relevant?