

Vol. IV, No. 5.] Notes on the Geography of Old Bengal. 273 
[N.S.] 
Karatoya river, oie identified the monastery Po-shi-po with 
Bhasu Biha ar to i est.! The fort has several old re nan 
ie : 
as one of importance. * it is not noticed in t maps , 
and the direction §.-E. to Karna-suvarna (Gauda) toa sia hold 
d. With this eection, some place higher up on the Maha- 
nanda would agree. Were it not that the distance from Karna- 
Paundra P?) could have been identified with this. It had un- 
doubtedly old Hindu tanks with architectural remains, several of 
which had been built into ee mosque, Eklakhi tomb, and other 
Mussalman buildings of Pandua? The distance from Kamaripa 
and the distance from Rentigal (600 li) also do not disagree with 
this eesti ion. 
The name of the capital is not given in the Records. In the 
ee silers of the Rastrakita Govinda IV, dated 8th August 
D., land ie granted toa Brahmana coming from Pundra- 
Seite’ na-nagara § ; ‘while in the Brhat-katha-manjari a town is 
named Pundra-varddhana-pura 
Lastly, according to the aaa oe dramatical treatise, the 
e which should be used by actors 
tangusge. pers Ss alate hig a. Wiekeaa, Raivaicen 
Vatsas, Odras, Magadhas, Paund¢ras, Naipalikas, Pragjyotisas, 
: : sendh 
pointing out the prevalent form of language in Eastern India. 
Il. GAUDA, LAKSMANAVATI. 
Gauda has not been traced in any _—s of the Vedic or 
epic period, But it must have existed 
Maude. from a pretty old time, as itis named in 
the oldest rhetorical works. In Kavy- adarsa or Mirror of Poetry 
by Dandyacarya, of the various poetical margas or styles, two are 
specially selected for discussion, V aidarbha-Gaudiyan, Vaidarbha 
and Gaudiya ®; and Kavy-adarsa’s date is believed to be of the sixth 



: Arch. Sur, Rep., India, XV., PP. Vey = 
2 Do., p. 80: venshaw’ 8s Gau 
3 Ind. Ant., XIT 
# Lamb. III tide “a vv. 237, 2 
5 Bharata’s Natya.dastram, Cnt, 82-34, ‘Two verses of this importan 
passage are quoted be 
Anga ahaa Kalhglines Vatsd8=c= aiv=Odra-Magadhah\ 
Paundra-Naipalikas =c=aiva Antar-gir i-Bohir -girah i 321 
Prapai-(gjyau) tisah Pulindas-ca Vai Ta 
ar, $a, pariccheda I, 40, 42, 44 (anuprasa- a), 46, 
For Gantiya rh cf. Hargaccarstam, introductory verse 7; Wamana’s Kavyd- 
lankéra-sitra, 9 12; Radrata’s Kavyd-lankara, Adh. II. 4-5 
Prelate te gre tL 28, 31. 
