 Each verse of "Karika" are presented in four quarters (two quarters making one half), the first quarter has exactly three feet (12 beats), the second quarter four and half feet (18 beats), the third quarter of every verse has three feet (12 beats again), while the fourth quarter has three and a half plus an extra short syllable at its end (15 beats).Thus, metrically, the first half stanza of every verse of this philosophical text has thirty instants, the second has twenty seven.Samkhya emerged in the Vedic tradition, states Gerald Larson, and the "Karika" is an important text that was the fruit of those efforts.