P.M. Joseph
This work is the continuation of my post-doctoral work Dravidian Borrowings From Prakrit Languages, done in the International school of Dravidian Linguistics, Thiruvananthapuram, which is proposed to be published soon. During that work, which is an attempt to survey Prakrit loan words in the major Dravidian languages. Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. It was evident that the early Jainas had done much for the improvement of the language and culture of the ...