vious lecture, there were many Iranian dialects which found their way into India long before the Aryans entered the land. These, it was pointed out, formed what the Aryans called the Pais'a'ci languages, being the speeches of those with whom they had to contend in their struggle for expansion in India. We find a continuous chain of these Paisaci dialects located in almost all places of India. This stratum, overlaid on, or perhaps supplanting the earlier Munda-Kol dialects representing the Austro-Indo-Erythraen civilization, formed the basis of the so-called Dravidian languages. Close parallels in Grammatical forms and vocabulary in Nepali, Baluci, Brahui and other languages which form some of the Iranian dialects indicate to us the origin of the Dravidian languages. Now, the Aryan dialects dating their existence even into Vedic times, had gone through
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