PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
A number of alterations to the text of the The Sanskrit Language have been made in this edition, the principal ones being as follows. In Chapter I the latter part of Section 6 has been rewritten to conform with the now prevailing opinion that the Aryan vestiges of the ancient Near East are to be connected specifically with Indo- Aryan. Also rewritten are Section u and (in part) Section 17 of Chapter III to take account of the conclusions reached on those topics in the articles of mine which are quoted in the Appendix, Chapter VIII has been renamed Loanwords in Sanskrit, so that loanwords from Greek and Iranian (Section 2) can be dealt with in it as well as loanwords from AusLfo- Asiatic and Dravidian (Section 1). The list of loanwords from Dravidian in this chapter has been shortened by the omission of some items now' considered to. be false or dubious (
At the end an Appendix has been added containing references to the moat important contributions to the subject which have appeared since 1955, and also some supplementary notes.
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T. Burrow
