"The absence of common names in the Indo-European languages for such Asiatic animals as the lion and the tiger and the camel, cannot prove the European origin of the Aryas [Indo-Europeans], for the names of such animals as are peculiar to the East might easily be forgotten by the people [after they had left India] in die West where those animals were not found. Or it is very probable that there may be several synonyms for the same object in the Aryan mother tongue—the one tribe of the Aryas in Asia or India having taken the fancy for one name while the other for another. . . . Professor Giles is an advocate of the European home of the Aryas. He ought to realize that his argument cuts both ways, for the names of European flora and fauna do not exist in the Asiatic Aryan lan- guages either. Really it should not be difficult to understand that the names for trees and animals disappear as the trees and animals themselves disappear."
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Lachhmi Dhar Kalla
Lachhmi Dhar Shastri Kalla was Reader of Sanskrit at St. Stephen's College, the University of Delhi, and head of the Department of Sanskrit from 1922 to 1949.
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