Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c6.93

c6.93

In the Great Epic, Bāhlīka is sometimes confounded with Bāhika or the region where the sindhu flows with its five branches, including the Madra countly over which Salya ruled, and Mādrī is once called Bāhlīkā ( I. 125, 21 ) and Nīlakaṇṭha in his gloss on *Mbt.* V. 39, 80, makes the same mistake : बाह्लीकाः "पञ्चानां सिन्धुष्ठानां नदीनां यत्र सङ्गमः । बाह्लीका नाम ते देशाः ।"