PREFACE. Tu three principal languages of Southern India are the Telugu, the Tamil, and the Carnátaca. The first is spoken in the provinces to the northward of Madras; the second to the southward; the third to the westward, on the table land above the passes of the mountains; and also in some districts below the ghauts, on the western side of the Peninsula. In Colonel Wilks's “ Historical Sketches of the South of India” tho limits of the Carnáraca country and language are thus described. The 6 principality which in later times has been named from the obscure 56 village of Mysoor, was the south-western portion of the ancient Cara *-natic, frequently named also the country of Canara,* or the country in which the Canara- language was spoken. According to this crite “ rion, the northern limits of that extensive region commenced near the * town of Beder in the latitude of 18° 45' N. about sixty, miles N. W. « from Ilyderabad; following the course of this language to the S. E. “ it is found to be limited by a waring line which nearly touches Adi. “ vanee (Adoni,) winds to the westward of Gooti, skirts the town of • The word Catara is a corruption of Carnátacao Digitized by Digitized by Google
