Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s7.479

c9.s7.479

Kamboja may have been a home of Brāhmaṇic learning in the later Vedic period. The *Vaṁśa Brāhmaṇa* actually mentions a teacher named Kāmboja Aupamanyava.² The presence of Āryas (Ayyo) in Kamboja is recognised in the *Majjhima Nikāya*.³ But already in the time of Yāska the Kambojas had come to be regarded as a people distinct from the Aryans of the interior of India, speaking a different dialect.⁴ We have further changes in later ages. And in *Bhūridatta Jātaka*⁵ the Kambojas are credited with savage (Non-Aryan) customs: