84000 Glossary of Terms

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བ་ལྷི་ཀ | Glossary of Terms

  • བ་ལྷི་ཀ

  • ba lhi ka
  • bāhlika
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The people of the region around the city of Balkh, in the north of present-day Afghanistan. Balkh was the capital of the region known to the Greeks as Bactria, the easternmost part of Persian Greater Khorasan. Bāhlika is also the name of one or several rulers of the region.

  • Bāhlika
  • བ་ལྷི་ཀ
  • ba lhi ka
  • bāhlika
Definition in this text:

The people of the Balkh region, or Bactrians.

  • Bāhlika
  • བ་ལྷི་ཀ
  • ba lhi ka
  • bāhlika
Definition in this text:

Appears in The Hundred Deeds as the name of a king and a people dwelling in the “barbaric outlying region” west of Jambudvīpa.