[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912) › v2.c4.s2.78 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s2.78 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s2.78 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c4.s2.78](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s2.78) 1. Balhika is the name of a people in the Atharvaveda¹ where the fever (Takman) is called upon to go to the Mūjavants, the Mahāvṛṣas, and the Balhikas. The Mūjavants are quite certainly a northern tribe, and though, as Bloomfield² suggests, the passage may contain a pun on Balhika as suggesting ‘outsider’ (from bahis, ‘without’), still no doubt the name was chosen from a northern tribe. But the view of Roth³ and Weber,⁴ which Zimmer⁵ once accepted, that an Iranian tribe is referred to (cf. Balkh), is not at all probable. Zimmer⁶ shows that there is no need whatever to assume Iranian influence. See also Parśu. - [Previous: v2.c4.s2.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s2.77) - [Next: v2.c4.s2.79](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s2.79) - [Up: v2.c4.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s2.78](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s2.78) · Pramāṇa