India As Described In Early Texts Of Buddhism and Jainism

Author(s): Bimla Charn Law
Publisher: Bimlacharan Law

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KINGS AND PEOPLES
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may be taken to suggest that they settled down and founded their territory somewhere near Gandhāra. According to the Mahābhārata (vii, 4.5), they had undoubtedly their capital at Rājapura,t a place which Hiuen Tsang locates to the south or south-east of Punach.? Dr. Raychaudhuri points out that the western boundaries of their territory must have reached Kafiristan in which district tho three distinct tribes, namely, Caumojee, Camoze and Camoje remind us of the Kambojas. Their country stood evidently on a trade-route connecting it with Dvārakā. It was the habitat of good horses (assānam āyatanam). As described in the Pali Assalāyana Sutta, the Yonas and Kambojas had the same kind of social organisation, Tho Kambojas were considered barbarous.? They had an independent or semiindependent tribal form of government.
The Jaina canonical texts mention the Cirātas (Pali and Sk. Kirätas) as a people without any details about them. In one of the Nāgārjunikoņda inscriptions, the Cirātas are associated
1 Rajapuram gatvā Kāpbojā nirjitë-stvayā. 9 Watters, op. cit., i, 284. 8 Raychaudhur, op. cit., 4th ed., p. 126; JRAS., 191%, p. 266. 4 Petavatihu, p. 23. 8 Sumangalavilāsini, i, p. 124. 8 Majjhima, ii, p. 149. 7 J@taka, vi, pp. 208, 210.