"[the Dravidian derivations ... on Sanskrit words [are not ] “self-evident” [but] “a matter of probability and to a ce…"

"MIA and NIA languages are not, strictly speaking, derived from the language of the Rigveda or from Classical Sanskrit…"

"There has been a certain amount of controversy concerning the question of non-Aryan loan-words in Sanskrit, and some …"

"“All these linguists are operating on the assumption, based on other criteria, that the Aryans ‘must have’ invaded In…"

"“not a single case in which a communis opinio has been found confirming the foreign origin of a Rgvedic (and probably…"

"There was a branch of Indo-Aryan which, like the parent Indo-European, had retained the distinction between r and l, …"

"[it is] “always possible, eg. to counter a suggestion of borrowing from one of the indigenous language families by su…"

"Another point is that there may be a covert petitio principii at work here. Many assertions on what can or cannot be …"

"[K.R. Norman, in his study of the variations between the OIA (Old Indo-Aryan: Vedic and Classical Sanskrit) and MIA (…"

"“All the Dravidian languages known to us fairly bristle with loans from Sanskrit and the Aryan vernaculars. Dravidian…"