[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Historical geography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography) › [The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.dey-1899) › c5.s5.65 # The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s5.65 The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s5.65 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s5.65](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.dey-1899.c5.s5.65) 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\*). - [Previous: c5.s5.64](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.dey-1899.c5.s5.64) - [Next: c5.s5.66](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.dey-1899.c5.s5.66) - [Up: c5.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.dey-1899.c5.s5) ## Cites (2) - [Matsyapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Suttanipāta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.suttanipata) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.dey-1899.c5.s5.65](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.dey-1899.c5.s5.65) · Pramāṇa