Original sentence: , clarified that it was a case of misplaced parenthesis and that he had given repeated on-line clarifications and general apologies over the years.Cordona also discusses Witzel's Para-Munda substratum theory.However, Witzel has quoted words like (jar-)tila and (śa-)kunti(ka/la) (Mund.However, Witzel, responding to Elst (1999) in his 2001 paper (EJVS 7-3, notes 45-46).Indian Epigraphist, Iravatham Mahadevan, ina newspaper article, takes strong exception to the comments by Steve Farmer and Michael Witzel in their on-line objection to a paper by some scientists in a US journal.Mahadevan notes that "such quotations (by Witzel and Farmer) are representative of what passes for academic debate in sections of Western media" and adds that such "provocative comments by Farmer and Witzel will surprise only those not familiar with the  consistently aggressive style adopted by them".Witzel incidently had called the method of the paper "garbage in garbage out".kon-the'd) in his 1999 and later papers
Edited sentence: Cardona also discusses Witzel's Para-Munda substratum theory.However, Witzel has quoted words like (jar-)tila and (śa-)kunti(ka/la),  (Mund.However, Witzel, responding to Elst (1999) in his 2001 paper (EJVS 7-3, notes 45-46) , clarified that it was a case of misplaced parenthesis and that he had given repeated on-line clarifications and general apologies over the years.kon-the'd) and (ku-sur-)binda/Bainda in his 1999 and later papers