History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c74.t4.31

v5.c74.t4.31

The Brahmapurāṇa chap 66 speaks of the Guṇḍicāyātrā for seven days on the bank of the Indradyumna pool in a *maṇḍapa* where reside (temporarily) Kṛṣṇa, Saṅkarṣaṇa and Subhadrā. The Tīr. C. which quotes the whole of that chapter (pp. 157–159), calls it Guṇḍikā, while in the drama Caitanyacandrodaya¹⁵⁸⁷ it is styled Guṇḍicā at the very beginning. It appears that Guṇḍicā is the summer house of Jagannātha about two miles from the great Temple. The word is probably derived from *guṇḍi*, which means a thick log of wood in Bengali and Uriya (vide Mitra's 'Antiquities of Orissa', vol. II. pp. 138-139) and has reference to the legend of a log of wood that Indradyumna found floating in the sea.