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prehended. And then, these ideas when communicated to others or when they occur to the same mind at different times, in various surroundings, and in various contexts, enter into a variety of complex relations with the mental content of others or of oneself as it exists at a particular moment. The result of this is that ideas get various shades of meaning and evoke a variety of corresponding trains of ideas and feelings. These shades of meaning may gradually diverge to such an extent that their connection with the original idea and the word that represented it in the beginning may be completely obscured Again these mental processes give rise to a free play of the analogical formation of words which occupies no small and unimportant a portion of philologv. Future Dravidian philological studies, therefore, cannot be pursued without paying regard to this psychological aspect of the