The book is not intended to present the phonological and morphological features of Old Indo-Aryan in detail.
The origin and development of O. I. A. has been discussed at length by T. Burrow in his 'Sanskrit Language', and the L E. characteristics of the Aryan language have been analytically detailed by J. Wright in the Comparative Grammar of Greek Language. The present book is an outline study of comparison between O. I. A. on the one hand and Assamese-Bengali, on the other. The subject of study was designed to sketch the grammatical details of the Magadhan languages on a historical and comparative basis, so that the work falls in line with the Comparative Germanic Grammar by E. Prokosch. The scheme was subsequently dropped for various practical difficulties.
When the present book was under preparation, another work on linguistics had been going through the press. The author dwelt in that book (Bhaa Vijnana Paricaya) the advent of the Aryans to India, the historical development of the M. I. A. and the general survey of the Magadhan languages. These historical topics have been deliberately left out in this work to avoid repetitions. The work is therefore a short Comparative sketch of Assamese and Bengali in the back ground of O. I. A. which is the ultimate source of their origin. The fundamental aspects of the O. L. A. language have been discussed but the more complex and delicate I. E. features of O. L. A. have been left out, because the book is primarily intended for the general students of Assamese and Bengali. In fact, I was persuaded by my students of the departments of Assamese, Bengali and Sanskrit to write a book of its kind.
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