OF BHARATAVARSA OR IJsDIA. 
137 
Moreover I have endeavoured to demonstrate how much that 
is now considered Aryan in name and in origin must be 
regarded as originally Dravidian. 
The various principal Dravidian tribes who live scattered 
over the length and breadth of the vast Indian continent are, 
in order to establish their mutual kindredship, separately 
introduced into this discussion. This method may create in 
the minds of some readers an impression that the several 
topics are somewhat disconnected, but the necessity of this 
arrangement will become manifest in the continuation of 
this treatise. Where there is so much room for conjecture, 
it is easy enough, of course, to fall into error, and I shall be 
prepared to be told that many of my conclusions are errone- 
ous and the hypotheses on which they are built fanciful. 
Though much of what I have written may be shown to 
be untenable, I shall yet be satisfied if, in the main, I 
establish my contention, and I shall deem myself amply 
repaid for my labour if I succeed in any degree in restoring 
the Dravidian to those rights and honours of which he has 
so long been deprived. 
My errors, too, may not be without use, if, like stranded 
vessels, they serve to direct the explorer, warning him away 
from those shoals and rocks that beset the enquirer in his 
search after truth. 
System of Transliteration. 
k, kh, g, gh, n, h, h, a, a. 
c, ch, j, jh, n, 8, y, i, I, e,'°- S, ai. 
t, th, d, dh, n, s, r, r, r. 
t, th, d, dh, n, s, 1, 1, 1. 
p, ph, b, bh, m, h, v, u, u, 0^"^ 6, au. 
Anusvara m ; r, 1, 1, are peculiar to the Dravidian 
languages. 
Used in Dravidian languages. 
See also note 1 on p. 31. 
