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origin, his Desi-sadda-samgaho, or Rayaņārali (also known as Desīnāmamäla) which supplies a lexical residue, containing items which could not fit in with the Sanskrit-Prākrit correspondences set up by him. We know that this is how a comparativist proceeds; he collects the cognates which display regular correspondences, and separates the rest of the lexicon, which could be taken care of either by analogy or borrowing. It would be, of course, not useful to find fault with Hemacandra's etymologies; we have much more analysed data and refined tools, but we can profitably appreciate his familiarity with the notions of regular and irregular' in comparative historical linguistics.
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