An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s7.293.6

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(η), but between Sindhu and its tributary rivers. On some very secret mission Karna had to live among the Bahikas, and therefore their conduct was well known to him; "there is a town Çakala, a river Apaga, and a Bahika clan Jarttikas; the practices of these people are very censurable" (description; an example is cited of a Bahika who happened to live for some days in Kurujangala, and a Ra. woman in Çakala; the rivers Çatadru, etc. (θ), in the countries of the Arattas, regions without virtue and religion). "D., P., and brahmans never accept gifts from those that are fallen, nr those that are begotten by Çudras on the girls of other castes, or the Bahikas, who never perform sacrifices and are exceedingly irreligious." He mentioned three impure places (ι) (v. the note of PCR., p. 155). There were two Piçacas in the river Vipaca, named Bahi and Hika; the Bahikas are the offspring of those two Pc.; they are not creatures created by the Creator. The Karashkaras, etc. (κ), and other peoples of no religion one should always avoid; even thus did a Ra. woman speak to a brahman who went to that country for bathing in sacred water and passed a single night there. The regions are called Arattah, the water Bahika; the lowest brahmans have resided there from very remote times (brahmanapasada yatra tulyakalah Prajapateh), without the Vedas, etc. The Prasthalas, etc. (λ), are almost as blameable in their practices (VIII, 44).