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ON THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS 
communities. But successive waves of the Aryan invasion, 
swelled in their course by the accession of former opponents 
who had despaired of successful resistance, must soon have 
flooded over the Gauda-Dravidian settlements. Some by 
their prowess were able to maintain their ground against 
the invaders, while otliers, defeated, left their abodes and 
emigrated towards the South. Yet even the North, subject 
though it became in time to the Aryan or rather Brahmanical 
sway, can never be said to have been totally conquered by 
force of arms. Still less was this the case with the South, 
where the Brahmanical influence always assumed a more civic 
and priestly character ; influence, which though of another 
kind, can hardly be deemed less powerful, since it is more 
lasting and more thorough. Even the Aryanised languages 
■of North-India— however they may prove the mental superi- 
ority of the invaders who were able to force on their defeated 
foes their peculiar mode of thinking — manifest their origin 
in their vocabularies and show the inability of the victors to 
pi-ess on the vanquished their own language. The languages 
of both, victors and vanquished, amalgamated and formed 
new dialects, and the difference which exists between the 
abstract synthetic Sanskrit and the concrete agglutinated 
Dravidian is clearly expressed. This difference is easily 
observable when we compare on the one hand the construction 
of Sanskrit with that of such Aryanised languages, as Ben- 
gali and Marathi, which possess a considerable substratum 
of a non- Aryan element, and on the other hand the con- 
struction of Latin with that of the Neo- latin lansruao-es 
French and Spanish, which may be considered as entirely 
Arj^an. I have alluded to this fact in my Classification 
of Languages." Hindustani is a fair specimen of such a 
miscegenation of languages. 
The earliest mention of a G-auda-Dravidian ■n-ord is to be 
found in the Bible. In the first book of Kings, x. 22, we 
read as follows : For the king had at sea a iiari/ of T/iarghis/i 
