The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s5.65

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Gonardda—1. The Punjab, so called from Gonardda, king of Kāśmīra, who conquered it. 2. Gonda in Oudh is a corruption of Gonardda, the birth-place of Patañjali the celebrated author of the *Mahābhāshya*: hence he was called Gonarddīya. See Gauḍa. He lived in the middle of the second century before the Christian era, and was a contemporary of Pushpamitra, king of Magadha, and wrote his *Mahābhāshya* between 140 and 120 B.C. During his time, Menander, the Greek king of Sākala in the Punjab, invaded Ayodhyā (Goldstücker's *Pāṇini*, pp. 234, 235; *Matsya P.*, ch. 113; Bhandarkar, *Ind. Ant.*, II, 70). 3. A town situated between Ujjayinī and Vidiśa or Bhilsa (*Sutta-nipāta*: *Vatthugāthā*).