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Rh Prakritic verbal form హోౕద, హపది Skt. ధపతి. You may consider this very suggestion a point in which philology has run mad, but who knows that, after all, on further thorough-going study of the Prakrits, a connection may be established between the two. I have cited the above example to show that a scientist should not be swayed by prejudice of any kind, but follow the lead of any light that may be forth-coming, and if the light leads into blind alleys, well, there is nothing lost, we may return the way we have gone to the place from where we started, and begin our enquiries afresh. [sic]

Change in language is never so sudden as it is generally supposed to be. Mark Twain tells us of a man who, having somewhere read that the glaciers ono the Alpine tops move downwards, wanted to enjoy the pleasure of sliding down on the glacier from the mountain peak. He