Thanks also to Nagaraj Paturi and Michael Witzel. Additional information like the personal name Tuka and the reference to a Nikumbha king may indeed help to eliminate at least some of the many possible Pippalagrāmas. The general spread of Tājika astrology (starting from Gujarat) may give a clue as well. I have not so far seen any reference to authors from Orissa or Kashmir, though there are a few (later) works from Bengal.

Martin


Den 2017-06-09 kl. 17:40, skrev Nagaraj Paturi:
consisted of two villages Bilvagrama and Pippalagrama in. Nidhivasa Khampanaka. These places can be identified as. Belpandhari and Belpimpalgaon at a ..

here

http://www.jstor.org/stable/44147473?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

mentions pippalagrama

Jan Gonda's book 

here

has pippalagrama

On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 8:03 PM, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
FYI
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From: Witzel, Michael <witzel@fas.harvard.edu>
Date: Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Pippalagrama of the Nikumbha king?
To: Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh@umich.edu>
Cc: "Witzel, Michael" <witzel@fas.harvard.edu>


Dear Madhav,

unless the Maharastrian “Saint” Tuka(Ram) is a clue, Pippala-grama- derived names also occur in Orissa (Pipli when Paippaladin Atharvavedins indeed exist: I talk to them in 1983) and in U.P.

Similarly for Kumbha/Nikumbha that occur, if memory serves, in the Nilamata Purana of Kashmir and in the Devi Mahatmya: All clearly mythological…(next to Piśācas etc,)
Is the change from bh > b a Maharastrian trait? I doubt. But typical for Dardic languages, including Kashmiri.

Just my 2 cents.
Michael