Cognate with varaka etc. in South asian is the so-called Indo-Aryan: markaka = ardea argala, maize (cf. Turner 9879, 9884). Hundreds of examples of v -- m transforms are attested. Koraput Munda *deray = ragi (Zide, 1973).[Intimations of hyper-Sanskritism of Munda ru-kug??] cf. also priyangu = panicum italicum, millet (Turner 8976). Kalyanaraman.