- པ་ཧྣི་ཀ
- བ་ལྷི་ཀ
- བ་ལྷི་བ།
- བི་ལི་ཀན་པ།
- ba lhi ka
- ba lhi ba
- pa h+ni ka
- bi li kan pa
- bāhlika
- bāhlīka
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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
The people of the Balkh region, or Bactrians.
- Bāhlika
- བ་ལྷི་ཀ
- ba lhi ka
- bāhlika
Appears in The Hundred Deeds as the name of a king and a people dwelling in the “barbaric outlying region” west of Jambudvīpa.
The name of the Bactrian people, who lived in the Balkh region of northern Afghanistan, north of the Hindu Kush. In later times the people from this region also settled in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent.