[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [Indian Epigraphy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965) › c16.s8.7 # Indian Epigraphy c16.s8.7 Indian Epigraphy c16.s8.7 - **Language:** English ### [c16.s8.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s8.7) There are many words of Dravidian origin used in the Sanskrit inscriptions. An interesting word of this category is \*pukkoli\*, \*pukkūli\* or \*pukkolli\* found in certain Sanskrit inscriptions from the Kannaḍa-speaking area in expressions like \*pukkoli-kṣetra\* or \*pukkoli-khajjana\*. The word \*khajjana\*, also spelt \*khajjaṇa\*, \*khajjāna\*, \*khajjaṇaka\*, etc., is the same as Marāṭhī \*khājaṇ\*. It is a Sanskritised Deśī word meaning ‘the area \[near the sea-shore\], on which a thin layer of sand accumulates after the ebb-tide coming through inlets’ and ‘a rice field created out of such an area near a hillock by erecting embankments on the three other sides’, or ‘a field created by reclamation of the river-bed’.³ We were formerly inclined to regard the word \*pukkoli\*, \*pukkūli\* or \*pukkolli\* as derived from \*poṅkalu\* found in records of the Telugu-speaking area in the sense of Telugu \*pokalu\* meaning arecanuts⁴ and \*pukkoli-kṣetra\* as a piece of land having an arecanut plantation on it.⁵ It would then be the same as \*guvāka-vāstu-bhū\* or \*kalana\*, a Bengali word not found in Bengali lexicons, but mentioned in the Vaṅgīya Sāhitya Pariṣad plate⁶ of Viśvarūpasena of Bengal. A recently published inscription however suggests that \*pukkoli\* and its variants mean ‘land inundated by floods \[of the ebb-tide\]’. It would thus mean a kind of field similar to \*khajjana\*. - [Previous: c16.s8.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s8.6) - [Next: c16.s8.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s8.8) - [Up: c16.s8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s8.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.sircar-1965.c16.s8.7) · Pramāṇa