Geography of Early Buddhism c8.14

c8.14

² We learn from a passage of the Mahābhārata that a place called Rājapura was the home of the Kambojas (Mahābhārata, VII, 4, 5; "Karna Rājapuram gatvā Kāmbojā nirjitā stvayā"). The association of the Kambojas with the Gandhāras enables us to identify this Rājapura with the Rājapura of Yuan Chwang which lay to the south or south-east of Punch (Watters, Yuan Chwang, Vol. I, p. 284). The western boundaries of Kamboja must have reached Kafiristan, and there are still in that district tribes like "Caumojee", "Camoze" and "Camoje" whose names remind us of the Kambojas.' (PHAI., p. 95.)