Re: Substrate language which contributed sarSapa to

>This is brilliant!

Of course

 

>First you construct

a form for sarsapa which does not exist in any Dravidian language but only in Sanskrit!

Let me make a slight correction: existing as a loan word from substrate Dravidian, for which no Indo Aryan etymology is available, and I have suggested a Dravidian etymology.

 

 

>Have you wondered

about the fallacy?

No

 

> Next you ignore the regular sound changes which

causes the elision of Sanskrit /s/ in various Dravidian languages…..

 

You are repeating irrelevant argument. There is no etymology for the word in Sanskrit. I derived it from root ‘kAzh’.

 

> In this discussion

everything was from the primary source written by Krishnamurthi and nothing from any secondary source.

I dealt with it in my previous mail.

 

-Jyothi