In the Introduction to his translation of the Vaikh1nasasmārtasūtra (p. xiii fll.) Professor Caland has called attention to certain Tamilisms in the said work, such as anyāṃ vivāhaṃ kuryāt (═ vēru peṇṇai vivākam ceytu-kolla-vēṇum), vedān … adhyayanaṃ Jcaroti, etc. In a work like the Vaikhānasa-sūtra, which is obviously not written in the best Sanskrit, this is not very surprising, nor can it be said that these irregularities render the text unintelligible anywhere. But there seem to be, even in the works of well-known Sanskrit authors, cases of Sanskrit influenced by the vernacular which actually embarrass the reader. One such case is the following one which I came across recently in Śankarānanda's Bhagavadgītā-vyākhyā.