Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c6.130

c6.130

This land of the five rivers with the Indus as the sixth does not exactly belong to the Udīcya division, but to the Pratīcya or Western Division; yet we mention it here on account of its affinity with the Udīcya countries and in fact, in the *Mahābhārata*, its ancient name Bāhika is sometimes confused with Bahlika, but that they were not the same country is quite apparent both from the descriptions of the two countries in the Epic itself, as well as the separate mention by Vātsyāyana.