Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c9.11

c9.11

Bactrian, people 114 Badakhshan, country 153, 158 Bādāmi, city 79 Badara, people 95n Badiamaioi, people 133 Baeones, island 133 Baga, locality 159 Baghlan, see Fo-kia-lang, territory 151n Bāgmatī, river 84 Bahala, territory, possibly a mistake for Bāhlika 98, 100 Bāhika, tribes of the Pujab 15; confused with Bāhlika 106 Bahirgiri, mountain, people and country 77; lying in the northern region 64 Bāhlika, also spelt Bāhlika, Bahlika, Bālhika, country and people 73, 101; probably called Bahala 100; same as Bactria or Bactriane, country 95n, 96, 98, 109, 143; in the western region 63; mistake for Bāhika 106; see Balhika, Bālhika, Bālika 14n, 27, 30, 96 Bahmanābād, locality, 77n, 101; see Bamhawā 157; see Brāhmaṇavāha 103 Bahraich District, U. P. 72, 162 Bāhudā, river 84, 106; see Arjunī 104 Bahudhānyaka, locality in the west, near Rohtak 65 Bāhya, people 91 Bāhyā, river 87 Bailey, H. W. 116n Bairāṭ, locality 72 Baithana, same as Pratiṣṭhāna, modern Paiṭhan in the Aurangabad District 134 Bakarei, locality 123 Baktra (Balkh), capital of Baktria 144 Baktriane (Bactria), same as Bāhlika, country 143-45 Bālabhārata, work 74 Baladeva-pattana, locality, 94n Balāhaka, mountain 49