Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c6.181

c6.181

It must now be amply clear that the country that was known as Gauḍa in ancient times, was a part of Bengal and it seems more than probable that it is in Bengal also that we have to locate the Gauḍapura of Pāṇini⁴ who says that when the words Ariṣṭa and Gauḍa stand before the word pura so as to form the words Ariṣṭapura, and Gauḍapura, the acute accent is placed on the final syllable of the first member. The only *pura* or city bearing the name of Gauḍa at any time was situated in Bengal. No city of the same name occurs in the Gonda district or anywhere else in India.