Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c16.5

c16.5

gives the following boundaries of the *Cakravarti-kṣetra*: (1) Vāhlika (spelt also with *b* for *v* and *ī* for *i*) in the north; (2) Vaṅga in the east; (3) Southern Sea in the south and (4) the seven mouths of the Indus (all falling into the Western or Arabian Sea) in the west. The Vāhlika-Bāhlika-Vāhlika-Bāhlika country is certainly the modern Balkh region on the Oxus in the northern part of Afghanistan.³