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Rh enterprise and scholarly patience. Kittel brought out good editions of some of the best Canarese classics and showed the way for future work. Rice was another gentleman who took great interest in Canarese studies and not only did much for its literature but also trained some datives in the methods of textual criticism, so that the output of publications of old Canarese books was very remarkable during his time.

Alongside of literary and linguistic studies there was to be perceived at that very time a beginning made in bringing to light a large number of South Indian Inscriptions. South Indian Epigraphy which owes its inception again to foreign enterprise has rendered great service in the construction of South Indian History, and although its importance for linguistic purposes was not generally recognised at that time, the materials that have been gathered are there for those