History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c96.s1.54

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²⁶¹⁷ Atri-smṛti VII 2 (in prose, Ānan. collection) mentions some of these foreign tribes and peoples. Vide Anuśāsanaparva 33. 21-23 (Śakā yavāna-kāmbojāḥ kṣatriyājātayaḥ। vṛṣalatvaṁ parigatā brāhmaṇānām adarśanāt &c.) and Anuśāsana 35. 17-18 also. Śaka and Yavana are included among Śūdras by the Mahābhāṣya on Pāṇini II 4. 10 (q in H. of Dh. Vol II p 92. n. 200). Aśoka in his Rock Edicts V. and XIII refers to Yonas, Yonarāja and Kāmbojas as people on the borders of his empire. A. M T. Jackson says in 'Indian Antiquary' for 1910 p 77 'the attractive power of Hindu civilization which has enabled it to assimilate and absorb into itself every foreign invader except the Moslem and European India civilized the nomads of Central Asia, so that wild Turkman tribes have been transformed into some of the most famous Rajput royal races '