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

> On Jun 9, 2017, at 2:41 AM, Martin Gansten via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
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> Many thanks to Ashok Aklujkar and Madhav Deshpande for their prompt replies! There was a discussion on the list about two years ago concerning the name Tuka itself, which also seemed likely to be of Marathi origin. I am still wondering about the 'one great king' of the Nikumbhas, which does sound as though the author had a particular ruler in mind. It needn't have been a contemporary king, of course -- it might be someone associated historically with the founding of Pippalagrāma.
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> Martin Gansten
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