Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c12.880

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**Kamboja** (Kambojaka).—One of the sixteen **Mahājanapadas** which, with **Gandhāra**, belonged, not to the **Majjhimadesa** but, evidently, to the **Uttarāpatha**.¹ It is often mentioned as the famous birthplace of horses (*assānaṃ āyatanaṃ*).² In the **Kuṇāla Jātaka**³ we are told that the Kambojas caught their horses by means of moss (*jalajāta*), and the scholiast⁴ explains at length how this was done. They sprinkled the moss with honey and left it in the horses' drinking place; from there, by means of honey sprinkled on the grass, the horses were led to an enclosure.