Tribes in Ancient India c5.59

c5.59

The Jaina *Uttarādhyayana Sūtra*⁴ tells us that a trained Kambojan horse excels all other horses in speed, and no noise can frighten it. In the *Campeyya Jātaka*⁵ we read that a king of Kāśī, being requested by a Nāga king to visit his abode, ordered well-trained Kambojan horses to be yoked to his chariot.⁶ Viṣṇuvardhana, who later became ruler of Mysore, owned Kambojan horses, which were evidently much coveted for their speed.⁷ The *Aṭṭhakathā* on the *Kunāla Jātaka* furnishes us with the interesting piece of information that the Kāmbojas were in the habit of capturing horses in the forest by tempting them into an enclosed space by means of aquatic plants which they smeared with honey.⁸