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number of provincialisms contained in it, it gradually became extinct. Udyotanasuri, in the introductory part of his Kuvalayamala (p.3), respectfully remombers this work as well as the Tarangavai Kahā, together with their authors. Several of the “words of non-Indo-European, uncertain or unknown origin” given by Turner in his A comparative and Etymological Dictionary of Nepali Language, Index p.657 fl, may come under this class. (i) Kanarese words in Desi Lexicons, J.B.O.R.I. VOL.XII 1930, by Dr.A.N.Upadhye. (ii) Kannada Words in Hemacandra's Desīnāmamala, J.K.U. (Hum.) Vol.X VII, 1963, by the present author. (iii) Kannada words in Desī Stock J.K.U. (Hum.) Vol. VIII 1964, id. (iv) Kannada Element in Dhatvadesas, J.K.U, (Hum.) Vol.IX, 1965 id. After Caldwell, Gundert, Kittel etc., linguisticians like Levi, Przyluski and Bloch (in their respective papers in Pre-Aryan and Pre-Dravidian in India, University of Calcutta 1929), Dr.Katre (in his Historical Linguistics in Indo-Aryan, Bombay 1944, particularly pp.138-139 and p.154), Dr.S.K.Chatterji (in his Indo-Aryan and Hindi, Ahmedabad 1942, pp.94.95 and also noted by Dr.Katre, Op.cit., p.189, note 8) and Prof.C.R.Sankaran (in his Some Problems in Kannada Linguistics Dharwar 1954 pp. 47-50) have either struck some cautions to be noted or prescribed some tests to be followed while investigating the problems of Dravidian loans in IA in general, and also in MIA in particular. Op.cit., p.40. This paper has been published in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol.60, No.3, 1940, pp.361-369. See No.12 in ‘On Dravidian Element in Sanskrit Dictionaries', Indian Antiquary, Vol. I, pp.235-239. "The Munda languages must have been formerly spoken
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