奥了独 Government in making the languages of the people into the languages of administration. In this context it must be said that indexing of words found in legal, trade and other old documents is also valuable. III. Dictionary of Dravidian Cognates The Madras University, after its publication of the wellpraised Tamil Lexicon in 6 volumes with a supplement volume, permitted fifteen years ago, the publication, under its authority, of a concise Tamil lexicon which is even now available with the Kalaimagal Office, Mylapore, Madras. Apart from these works, the University of Madras has the credit of publishing the Standarad English-Tamil Dictionary which was so ably edited by the late lamented Dr. A. C. Chettiar and Tiru. K. A. Appadurai, a multi-lingual scholar who is at present engaged in the preparation of Dictionaries of Legal terms and translation of the Constitution of India afresh and other Central and State-Acts with the guidance of Mr. N. Shanmugasubramaniah who has produced a number of standard Tamil works on law such as law of Torts, criminal law jurisprudence which are first of their kind in any Indian language. At present the Departments of the Dravidian Languages of the University of Madras are actively engaged in bringing out a comprehensive Pictionary of Dravidian Cognates in which entries are made both in English and respective Dravidian languages and will be more exhaustive than that of Dr. Emeneau and Dr. Burrow. The expected publication of this work in ’70 and ’71 which is, indeed, in a way, is a successor to the subject-wise Dravidian Common Vocabulary published earlier in 1959 by the University of Madras. When the new Dictionary of Dravidian Cognates of the University of Madras is published it is sure to promote the ideal of Dravidian integration, particulary among the learned sections of society in South India. It is also necessary that we have a follow-up to this Dictionary of Dravidian Cognates, in which languages other than the five major languages are also to be studied. This work may be taken up by any one of our Universities. IV. Semanfic Dictionaries As I envisaged in the very beginning of my paper it will be hereafter more useful to have as many special lexicons as possible
