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(4) It is not a loan from other Austro-Asiatic languages. Przyluski claims to have shown, in a series of articles in the Memories and the Bulletin de la Societe de linguistique de Paris, "the importance of the Austro-Asiatic languages for the study of Sanskrit and Middle Indian languages."IS
(5) It is not a case of an accidental linguistic phenomenon, 16 an ethno-psychological phenomenon, or polyglottisms or the like.
Among these tests the first is casy to apply. The second demands a vast knowledge of different families of languages, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, and Indo-European. If scholars like Gray extend their efforts to the entire field of the Desī Element in MIA and prepare an exhaustive list of vocables "derived from bases long recognized in non-Indian linguistic families of IndoEuropean”!), it would be of great use to scholars working in this field. The third and the fourth stand almost in theory only, for material usable to those effects is not available in both the groups of languages. As regards the items in te fifth, while the accidental linguistic phenomena and polyglottism are not difficult to be considered, the ethno-psychological phenomena require specialisation, for which we have to depend on scholars like Prof.C.R.Sankaran.
Besides, all these tests do not go to form a complete unit so as to ensure our conclusions being sinal, for there are some vocables, in MIA as well as in OIA, which stand beyond these tests and lead even eminent linguisticians to different conclusions. For example, while Bloch connects O1A tad -with Dravidian, Kan. tattu etc., Dr.Katre derives it from OIA trd-20 Again while Kittel connects the epic Sanskrit atati with Kan.ātu, and Bloch with Kan.adi etc., Dr.Katre attributes it to Ola rt-a-ti21 and remarks, “The acceptance of these etymologies is largely a matter of faith or convication."22 Coming, further, to MIA, when Bloch connects bolla - with Kan.bogalu or bogalu, etc., Dr.Katre derives it from OIA bru-23 and then lays down a comprehensive three-point
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