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Rh initial mistakes which he has committed-firstly, of looking at the wrong end of the telescope by taking Tamil as the basis of his investigation, and secondly of confining himself to Skt. alone in his comparisons, and thirdly of hoping for light from the Scythian languages, instead of looking to languages nearer home in his investigation. The result was that he was caught in the quagmire of unprofitable speculation and had to content himself with the conclusion that the best light for the solution of the Dravidian problem is to be found in them alone. We do not, of course, belittle the work which he has so lovingly turned out, but all the more honour him for the splended lead he has given to Dravidian philological studies

I have done. I have given you an idea of the extent and nature of the Prakrit languages. I have traced their origin to the Indo-Iranian times and shown how their history runs