Geography of Early Buddhism c8.13

c8.13

(ii) Kamboja. Kamboja is mentioned along with Gandhāra in the Aṅguttara Nikāya (I, p. 213; Ibid., IV, pp. 252, 256, 261) as one of the sixteen great countries of India. In the Paramatthadīpanī on the Petavatthu (P.T.S., p. 113) Dvārakā occurs along with Kamboja. But it is not expressly stated if Dvārakā was the capital of the Kamboja country. Dvārakā, in fact, was not really a city of Kamboja; nowhere in early or later Pāli literature there is any mention of the capital city of the Kamboja people,² nor of the location of their country, though it is certain that Kamboja must be located in some part of north-west India not far from Gandhāra.