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preferred to publish them in an English garb for the benefit of a wider circle of scholars.
It will not be possible to make a list of all the books which I have consulted in preparing these lectures. Especial mention must be made of the volumes of Dr. Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India, the latest Census Reports, the works of Drs. Beames and Hoernle, the Encyclopedia Brittanica and the various Prakrit grammars. For a good part of the first lecture dealing with the Anthropological problem, I have drawn upon Mr. Panchanan Mitra’s “Prehistoric India.”
In the following pages, the mark ‘ is used to denote the length of vowels and to distinguish the cerebral from the dentals, and the palatal from the dentals.
C. Narayana Rao.
