Tribes in Ancient India c25.8

c25.8

Mazumdar remarks⁵ that Barbara is mentioned in an Āyurvedic work called *Rājanighaṇṭu*; and Barbarika, evidently a city of the Barbaras, in another Āyurvedic work, *Dhanvantarīyanighaṇṭu*. This Barbarika (the Barbarei of Ptolemy⁶) is evidently the Barbaricum or Barbaricon emporium mentioned in the *Periplus of the Erythraean Sea* (prob. circa 80 A.D.). It was at that time a market town and port, was situated on the middle mouth of the Indus, and included in the Śaka country whose metropolis was Minnagar. Barbarika and Patala (the latter identified by V. A. Smith⁷ with Bahmanābād) formed the two towns of the islands of the Indus delta.