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Studies in Jainology, Prakrit
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A NOTE ON SOME MORE KANNADA WORDS IN DESI
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Hemacandra's Desinamamala occupies a distinct place in the field of the Desi element in Middle Indo-Aryan. Of the several intriguing problems connected with the Desī words collected in this work, that of the sources of such words is of considerable importance. It has been as established fact that Kannada, an important member of the Dravidian family, with its favourable geographical, historical, linguistic and literary background in early days, has served as one of the sources of several loan words listed in the Desīnāmamala and sound in other repositories of Desi vocables. A fairly good amount of work has already been done in this branch of study : Dr.A.N.Upadhye's pioneering work in this direction is quite noteworthy.' the presert writer's work in this field is spread over four papers. In the last of this series, a note had been taken of some of the cautions given and tests laid down by linguisticians for scientifically better lines of investigation of the Dosya vocables that are loans from the Dravidian in general and Kannada in particular. But Dr.H.C.Bhayani's “Studies in Hemacandra's Desīnāmamala”, which also represents some noteworthy aspects of investigation of loan words in the Desi
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