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Rh pletely overrun by, and owe their very existence to, the Drav. tongues! All the greater glory to the Dravidian idioms if they did possess such great power, but as matters stand, I fear we have to rest content with attributing a Prakritic origin to them along with the North Indian vernaculars and turn our efforts towards working out the details of this very promising conception.