Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.2362
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.2362
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c19.2362
The Epics and the Purāṇas mention the Barbaras as a northern or north-western people. The country of the Barbaras was in north-west frontier of India, and it stretched up to the Arabian sea.⁶ It is the Barbaricum or Barbaricon emporium mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythiean Sea.⁷