An Introduction to Dravidian Philology/Acknowledgement
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
I must thank the Madras University for having given me an opportunity to collect my thoughts on the Dravidian linguistic problem in the shape of the following lectures. Ever since I became acquainted with Caldwell’s Comparative Grammar, I have been feeling that the opinion of the native Dravidian scholars has not received the attention that it deserved. In these lectures, therefore, I have endeavoured to present the other sides the native side, of the picture. How far I have succeeded in my attempts, it is for scholars to judge. Bat I rest satisfied with the thought that I have not allowed the question of the affiliation of the Dravidian languages to be set at rest once for all, and hope that a keener interest will be revived in solving this intricate problem.
These lectures were originally delivered in Telugu, but I have 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.
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