205-171 BCE), invader of India around 180 BCE. Silver coin depicting the "Yavana" Greco-Bactrian king Demetrius I of Bactria (r.c. The sinners (un-rightous people) who are said to be wandering on thisĮarth from the time of Treta age having customs similar to those of Stigmatises the Yavanas, Kambojas, Gandharas, Kiratas and Barbaras as Kambojas, Sakas, Yavanas are portrayed as famous fighters wearing especially fine metal armors, expert cavalrymen and their overthrow is alluded to. Repeatedly as barbarians and fierce warriors from the west. Occurred, it might be regarded as a part of an interpolation in mass.īut the people described here as foreign invaders are all mentioned If this were the only place where the names In fact, when this statement was written, the people mentioned above Ray Chaudhury etc, this is too clear a statement to be ignored or explained away. Īccording to scholars like Edward Washburn Hopkins, H. Mlechha (Barbaric) kings of the Sakas, Yavanas, Kambojas, Bahlikas,Ībhiras etc will rule the earth (i.e India) unrighteously in Kaliyuga. There is also a distinct prophetic statement from the Vana Parava of the Mahabharata that the The invading hordes of the Sakas, Yavanas, Kambojas, Pahlavas, Abhiras etc from the north-west had entered Punjab, United Province, Sindhu, Rajasthan and Gujarat in large numbers, wrested political control of northern India from the Indo-Aryans and had established their respective kingdoms/principalities in the land of the Indo-Aryans. Raychadhury fixes the date of the present version of the Valmiki The time frame for these struggles is second century BCE downwards. Invading hordes of the barbaric Sakas, Yavanas, Kambojas, Pahlavas etc Verses the clear glimpses of the struggles of the Hindus with the mixed Law, Satya Shrava and others see in these There are important references to the warring Mleccha hordes of the Sakas, Yavanas, Kambojas, Pahlavas etc in the Bala Kanda of the Valmiki Ramayana. Kambojas, Sakas etc enter Indian Mainlandĭuring second/first century BC, in their advance from their original home in Central Asia, one stream of the Kambojas, allied with the Sakas and Pahlavas had proceeded to Sindhu, Sauvira and Surastra while the other stream allied with Yavanas appears to have moved to Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. References to Kambojas abound in ancient literature, and this may have been just the expansion of an Indo-Iranian tribe with both Indic and Persian affinities from their homeland in the present-day Afghanistan-Pakistan region along the foothills of the Himalayas towards Bengal, along the coast to Gujarat, to Sri Lanka, and possibly further to Cambodia.ġ Kambojas, Sakas etc enter Indian Mainlandġ.1 Military defeats1.2 The Kambojas in Mathuraġ.2.1 King Moga or Maues: Probably a Scythianised Kamboj kingġ.3 The Kambojas in West/Southwest India1.4 The Kambojas in South India1.5 Kambojas in Tibet and BengalĢ Kambojas in Sri Lanka3 Kambojas in Indochina4 References5 Recommended reading6 See also Dear All, The following write is from: Love and regards,Sreenadh=Migration of Kambojas
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