A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v1.c6.76

v1.c6.76

ट and ड are never elided; in non-Aryan words they would naturally hold their own, and in Aryan words they would generally spring from त्र, द्र, or र्त, र्द, and so being already, as it were, on the second step of development, they would not ordinarily be any further corrupted, except in the case of ड, which being now in the majority of cases pronounced as a harsh *r*, is not unfrequently confounded with र; its further change into ळ comes under the head of organic changes.