274 . Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. {May, 1908. 
century ec -In the still older work, Bharata’s Natya-sastram, 
or Treatise on Dramatic Performances, the hair-dressing of 
Gandiyas 1s wpecally a déeirt bed.! 
Gauda was originally the name of a district, An inscrip- 
tion on the Kanheri hill, Bombay, 
oe clares that the Buddhist ate 
Avighnakara, who caused to be built hall-mansions thereon with 
a donation of one hundred drammas, came from Ganda-visaya, 
Gauda-visayid =agata.2 In Brhat- sarivhitd, the tribe Gaudaka 
is placed in the eastern division with Paundras and Tamraliptakas.® 
A more precise location does not appear in Sanskrit works. But 
if the auda .king of Bana’s Harsa-caritam be identical with 
more than ten Bnddhist mon 
brethren of the Sammatiya sehser "peailes three monasteries of 
Devadatta’s school in which milk product were not taken as food. 
There were Deva temples, and the followers of various 
religions were very numerous,’ With other writers I agree in 
thinking that the Life is correct in placing Karna-suvarna 8.1K. 
of Paundravarddhana, and that the statement in the Records of its 
being N.-W. of Tamralipti is probably a mistake for N.E. 
position of its capital will be discussed infra. 
The references also wi that Gauda was not only the name 
a visaya, but was the general name 
An empire also. ais a kingdom or empire that included 

| Natya-sastram, (N.S.P. Edn.), Ch. XXI, 
Acchy (? ‘Av) anti-yuvatinam tu sirah uence ebetegies! 
Gaudinam-alaka-priyam gesa pray-aika- venikam i 
2 Ind. Ant., XIII, 184. The irscription was of "the reign of 
Rastrakita Amogha-varsa I, dated 16th September 851 A.D. (Saka 775 for 
778). 
3 Br Sam., XIV, 7 :— 
Udayngiri-Bhadra- Se ee agi dang cieined 1 
ida-Tamraliptaka-Ko$alaka-Vardhamandé = 
4 Harsa-caritam, 6th ucchdsa, (N.S SP. Ban. 2 i386, Grade dadhipen 
mithy-opacar-opacita-viardsam =m. ta-Sastram = ekakinam ‘vidrabdham 
bhavana eva bhrataram vyapaéditam =asrausit. Records, Beal, }.2t0; ** At thi 
time the king of Karna-suvarna—a ead of aces India—whos 
ame was Sasinka, ayep addressed his ministers in e words: ‘ If 
a frontier country h virtuous ruler, this is the eo ess of the 
kingdom On ai ‘hog “asked the king to a conference and murdered 
is 
