The present volume contains twelve of the sixteen papers presented at the Linguistics section of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference (elsinki, Final and, 13-18 July, 2003). The papers span a wide range of topics and time depth, extending from Common Indo-Iranian all the way to Modern Indo-Aryan. The general focus is, nevertheless, on Old and (early) Middle Indo-Iranian. The papers have been arranged thematically as follows: historical phonology of Old Indo-Aryan ...