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objectionable parts of the aboriginal system which they sought to eradicate. It is 

 certain that the indigenous form held the mastery to the end, and that it yielded 

 the very features, and no others, that would be most offensive to Sanskritic tastes. 

 For these and other reasons the latter hypothesis is the most satisfactory. 



There seemed, therefore, to be sufficient reasons for placing the Gaura system in 

 the Turanian connection. 



