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150 POLITICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA
but are inferior peoples of frontier, (i,ei, barbarian ) stocks."
The Kambojas in the 'Epic period had their metropolis probably at Rājapura. Dvārakā, mentioned by Rhys Davids as the capital in the early Buddhist period, was not really situated in this country, though it was connected with it by a road? A real city of the Kambojas was apparently Nandi-nagara mentioned in Liiders’ Inscriptions 176 and 472.
The Vedic texts do not mentior any king of Kamboja. But, as has already been pointed out, they refer to a teacher named Kamboja Aupamanyava who was probably connected with this territory. In the Mahābhārata the Kambojas are represented as living under a monarchicalconstitution. The Epic makes mention of their kings Chandravarman and Sudakshiņa. In later times the monarchy gave place to a Saigha form of government. The Kauțiliya Arthuśāstra + speaks of the Kambojas as a "vārtā-śastr-opajivin" Sanghi, that is to say, a confederation of agriculturists, herdsmen, traders and warriors. Corporations of Kambojas (Kambojānāñcha ye gaņāh) are. also mentioned in the Mahābhārata.
1 Watters 1. 284 ; for the Kambojas see also S. Lévi : "Pré-Aryen et PréDravidien dans I, Inde," J. A., 1923.
2 DPPN, I. 526; cf. Law: "The Buddhist Conception of Spirits, pp. 80-83. 3 Cf. I. 67. 32; II. 4. 22"; V. 165. 1-3 ; VII. 90. 59, etc. 4 P. 378. 5 VII. 89. 38.
