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बल्हिक (balhika)

 
Capeller Eng
English
ब॑ल्हिक
m.
N.
 of a man,
pl.
 of a people.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
बल्हिक
n.
=
 बाल्हीक, Asa Foetida,
L.
Monier Williams 1872
English
बल्हिक, अस्, m., N. of a man
(आस्), m. pl., N.
of a people
(sometimes also written वल्हिक।)
Macdonell
English
बल्हिक bálhi-ka,
m.
 N.:
pl.
 N. of a people 🞄(probably in the west of the Āryan territory).
L R Vaidya
English
balhika {% m. pl. %} Name of a country and its people.
Vedic Reference
English
1. Balhika is the name of a people in the Atharvaveda^1 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 Bloomfield^2 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 Roth^3 and
Weber, ^4 which Zimmer^5 once accepted, that an Iranian tribe
is referred to (cf. Balkh), is not at all probable. Zimmer^6
shows that there is no need whatever to assume Iranian
influence. See also Parśu.
1) v. 22, 5. 7. 9.
2) Hymns of the Atharvaveda, 446.
3) Zur Litteratur und Geschichte des
Weda, 41.
4) Indische Studien, 1, 205
Proceedings
of the Berlin Academy, 1892, 985-995.
5) Altindisches Leben, 130.
6) Op. cit., 431-433.
Cf. Whitney, Translation of the
Atharvaveda, 260
Hopkins, Great Epic
of India, 373.
Capeller
German
ब॑ल्हिक
m.
 Manns-, Pl. Volksname.