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1883.] Rajendralala Mitra —On Oonikaputra and Gonardiya. 
person bad two names, and those names belonged, as stated by Goldstucker 
on the authority of Kaiyata and Nagoji Bhatta, to Patanjali. Such, how¬ 
ever, was not the case. In the very first section of the work there occur 
the words I l 
Again, in describing Nayikas or amatory females, in section V, of 
Chapter I, Vatsyayana begins by saying, “ Nayikas are of three kinds: 
virgins, twice married, and prostitutes.” He then adds, “ on the other hand, 
for special reasons a (married) woman taken by a stranger is the fourth 
kind ; so says Gonikaputra. The fifth class is the widow, according 
to Charayana ; the sixth is the female ascetic according to Suvarnanabha ; 
the seventh is the daughter of a prostitute, a maid-servant, one who has 
not been taken by any one before, according to Ghotakamukha; the 
eighth is the woman who, having surpassed her youth, is in the full bloom 
of her beauty and womanhood, according to Gonardiya.”* Here we have 
two different authors entertaining two different sets of opinion—Gonikapu¬ 
tra adopting the fourfold division, and Gonardiya the eightfold,—and it is 
impossible to take them to be aliases of Patanjali. Whoever they were, 
and whatever the names of their respective works, it is unquestionable that 
they were authors of sufficient eminence and authority to be worthy of 
citation by Vatsyayana. 
The fact of the two authors having been distinctly separate being thus 
established, the question suggests itself, when did they live ? To this no 
direct categorical answer can be given ; but it is obvious they lived before 
Vatsyayana who lived long before the author of the Mahabhashya. Patanjali 
gives the rule for the derivation of the name Vatsyayana,f but does not 
say who this worthy was. Grammatically the word implies a descendant of 
the sage Vatsa by his son Vatsya, but it is generally used as an individual 
personal name, a proper noun, and not as a generic term. Hemachandra, in 
his glossary, says it was a name of Chanakya, who also bore the names of 
Vishnugupta, Mallanaga, Kautilya, Pakshila Svamx, Dramila and Angula.j; 
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