Historical Geography of Ancient India c6.363

c6.363

The Kambojas appear to have been one of the early Vedic tribes. They were settled to the north-west of the Indus and were the same as Kambujiya of the old Persian inscriptions. The *Bhāgavatapurāṇa* refers to it as a country (II. 7, 35; X. 75, 12; X. 82, 13). Some have placed them in Rājapura. Speaking of Rājapura Yuan Chwang says, ‘From Lampa to Rājapura the inhabitants are coarse and plain in personal appearance, of rude violent dispositions, . . . . . they do not belong to India proper but are inferior peoples of frontier stocks’.¹ V. A. Smith has placed this country among the mountains either of Tibet or of the Hindu Kush. Some have assigned it to the country round modern Sindh and Gujrat. Kamboja was famous for its horses which were speedy and were of perfect form.² For further details, vide B. C. Law, *Tribes of Ancient India*, Ch. I; B. C. Law, *Indological Studies*, Vol. I, pp. 9-10; *Geography of Early Buddhism*, pp. 50-51.