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Rh Prakrits, it became necessary that the different words forming part of the sentence should keep to their places to avoid misunderstanding. It is immaterial whether we say in Sanskrit bid'a'lo' mu's'hikam abhakshayat; or abakshayat bid'a'lo' mu'sbikam; or mu'shikam bid'a'lo' abakshayat, for in any case the meaning is not obscured; but if in the Drav. we interchange pilli and eluka in the sentence 'pilli eluka dinenu' we arrive at the improbable notion of the mouse eating the cat. A similar necessity is found in all the languages whose inflections are levelled like the Prakrits or the Gaudian languages.

I hope I have satisfactorily met the arguments of Caldwell to disprove the connection of the Drav. languages with Sanskrit. Of course, his main contention was correct that Sanskrit as Sanskrit does not lead us far in fixing the affinities. As I said before, Caldwell was handicapped by the three