Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c25.s3.16

c25.s3.16

As Subramanian himself admits candidly, there is no inscriptional evidence to support his claim. Further, his theory that the Prakrit languages were originally 'Dravidian' and later became 'Sanskritised' is not generally accepted. Modern linguistic research in Indo-Aryan and Dravidian has established that the Middle Indo-Aryan (Prakrit) languages are descended from the Old Indo-Aryan (Vedic), but are influenced by substratum languages including Dravidian.²