The name of Puṇyalābhuṇḍu

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Current Version:  draft, 2026-09-09Z

Editor:   N. Lakshminarayan Rao.

DHARMA Identifier: INSTelugu00045.xml

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Edition

1puṇyalābhuṇḍu

Translation by Jens Thomas

Commentary

Despite its early age (according to the entry in the Annual Report) the inscription already shows the later suffix form -ṇḍu. This personal name (from Sanskrit puṇya-lābha-) seems to be quite uncommon. The element puṇyalābha- and the suffix -nṟu seem to be in a tatpuruaṣa relation (which is comparatively rare) in that the name probably means ’the one who has gain in/from meritorious acts’.

Bibliography

Secondary

A. R. No. 46 of 1943-1944, App. E
Radhakrishna, Budaraju. 1971. Early Telugu Inscriptions (up to 1100 A.D.): With Texts, Glossary & Brief Linguistic History. Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Akademi.
Page 26, № 37.