Tribes in Ancient India c5.54

c5.54

In the *Harivaṃśa*, we find that the people of Kāmboja were formerly Kṣatriyas. It was Sagara who caused them to give up their own religion (*Harivaṃśa*, 14). From verses 43 and 44 of Chap. X of the *Manu-saṃhitā*, we find that the Kāmbojas, Śakas, Yavanas, and other Kṣatriya tribes were gradually degraded to the condition of Śūdras on account of their omission of the sacred rites, and of their not consulting the Brahmins. Kauṭilya’s *Arthaśāstra* states that the corporations of warriors (*kṣatriya-śreṇī*) of Kāmboja and other countries lived by agriculture, trade and profession of arms (*Vārtāśastropajīvin*).¹