India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s6.38
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c12.s6.38
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c12.s6.38
(1) *Bāhlīka*. Identified with Balkh in the extreme north of Afghanistan, which must have been organised as an *āyudhajīvī Saṅgha* in Pāṇini’s time. It was reckoned as a satrapy of the empire of Darius, a little before Pāṇini’s time.