Tribes in Ancient India c5.51

c5.51

Pāṇini belonged to the north-west quarter of India and hence had an accurate knowledge of the customs and dress of the Kāmbojas. The *Mayūravyaṃśakādigaṇa* of Pāṇini speaks of the Kāmbojas as *muṇḍa* or shaven-headed. Apparently the Kāmbojas were in the habit of completely shaving their heads, as would also appear from a passage quoted by Raghunandana from the *Harivaṃśa* and pointed out by Max Müller⁵: ‘The Sakas (Scythians) have half their head shorn, the Yavanas (Greeks?) and Kāmbojas the whole, the Pāradas (inhabitants of Paradene) wear their hair free, and the Pahlavas (Persians) wear beards’.