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Rh perhaps here and there with a few modifications can be traced in the existing records of the Iranian or Vedic dialects. I shall attempt here to show that most of the words which Caldwell bas cited to show their borrowing into Sanskrit from the Dravidian have their counterparts in the Veda. It is sufficient if one example is given from each of the Vedas.

1. amba': Caldwell admits the existence of this word in the Western Indo-European dialects, but believes it to be Dravidian on the ground that it has many collateral forms in the Dravidian. This word occurs 5 times in the Rig Veda, 2 times in the Yajurveda and 3 times in the Atharva Veda.

uve' amba sula'bhike' yathe'va'nga bhavishyati

bhasan me' ambą sakthi me' siro' me' vi'a br'ishyati vis'vasma' dindra uttarah' R. V. X. 86, 7.