Gauḍa, Gaudaa city, a country, and a literary style in ancient India. The city is better - known under its Anglicized formname, Gaur. Its first recorded reference is by the grammarian Pāṇini Panini (5th century BC BCE), and its location may be inferred to have been in eastern India.

The name GauḍaGauda, in Sanskrit literature, is commonly applied to a country in what is now eastern India. In this sense it occurs fairly widely in the Purāṇas Puranas and other sources. It seems always to have coincided roughly with an area south of the Ganges (Ganga) River in what is now West Bengal. The name is often used in a wider sense for the western parts of Bengal, as opposed to Vaṅga Vanga (modern present-day Bangladesh). From early times the inhabitants of Gauḍa Gauda were known as seafarers.

In literature, the poetic style Gauḍa Gauda or GauḍīGaudi, also known as Prācyā Pracya (easternEastern), is described by Daṇḍin Dandin in his work on poetics, KāvyādarśaKavyadarsha (“Mirror of Poetry”).