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'''Kambu Swayambhuva''' was an ancestor of the Afghan [[Kambojas|Kambuja]] tribe and king of Aryadesa.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wk4_ICH_g1EC&q=king+of+Aryadesa&pg=PA533 | title= Ancient Indian History and Civilization |author= Sailendra Nath Sen | year= 1999 | isbn= 9788122411980 | access-date=January 14, 2018}}</ref> He is listed and praised in [[shloka]] 22 of the [[Vedas|Vedic]] ''Ekatmata Stotra'' hymn among [[Hinduism|Hindu]] [[Rishi|sages]], warriors and conquerors alongside [[Agastya]], [[Narasimhavarman I]], [[Rajendra Chola I]], [[Ashoka]], [[Pushyamitra Shunga]] and others.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.hsscanada.org/downloads/camp2012/ekatmata-stotra_A.pdf | title= Ekaatmataa Stotra | publisher= HSS Canada | access-date=January 15, 2018}}</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
[[File:Map of Vedic India.png|thumb|350px|[[Vedic period]] of India with the [[Kambojas]] tribal lands in the north-west]]<br />
Scholar [[George Coedes]] refers to a 10th century inscription of a [[Cambodia]]n dynastic legend in which the [[hermit]] ''Kambu Swayambhuva'' and the celestial nymph ''Mera'' unite and establish the Cambodian ''Solar'' royal dynasty (Kambu-Mera), that begins with the [[Chenla]] ruler ''Srutavarman'' and his son ''Sreshthavarman''. Coedes suggests that the ''Kambu Swayambhuva'' legend has its origins in southern India, as a version of the [[Kanchipuram|Kanchi]] [[Pallava dynasty]] creation myth.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iDyJBFTdiwoC&q=KAMBU+SVAYAMBHUVA&pg=PA66 | title= The Indianized States of South-East Asia |author= George Coedès | year= 1968 | isbn= 9780824803681 | access-date=January 14, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.anthropology.hawaii.edu/people/faculty/Stark/pdfs/YoffeePages313332.pdf |title=9 Textualized Places, Pre-Angkorian Khmers and Historicized Archaeology by Miriam T. Stark - Cambodia's Origins and the Khok Thlok Story |author=Miriam T. Stark |author-link1=Miriam Stark |publisher=University of Hawaii |date=2006 |access-date=January 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923172439/http://www.anthropology.hawaii.edu/people/faculty/Stark/pdfs/YoffeePages313332.pdf |archive-date=September 23, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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Claimed to be the [[eponym]] of the [[Kambojas]], ''Kambu Swayambhuva'' is characterized as a [[Brahmin]] chieftain, married to ''Mera'', who was given to him by Lord [[Shiva]].<ref>Indianised States of Southeast Asia, 1968, p 66, 47, George Coedes</ref><br />
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The name Kambu is stated to be a corruption of the standard [[Sanskrit]] Kamboja.<ref>Ancient Kamboja, People and the Country, 1981, pp 359-60, Dr J. L. Kamboj.</ref> English Scholars such as C. Lassen, S. Levi, [[Michael Witzel]], J. Charpentier, A. Hoffman, [[A. B. Keith]], [[A. A. Macdonell]], [[H. W. Bailey]] and many others have traced the ethnic name Kamboja in the royal name Kambujadeshah (कम्बुजदेशः) in the [[Old Persian language|Old Persian]] Inscriptions Parskar Gryhamsutram spells the usual Kamboja as Kambuja.<ref>Parskar Gryhamsutram 2.1.23</ref> The ''Markandeya Purana'' (8.1-6) as well as in ''Srimad Devi Bhagawatam'' (5.28.1-12) etc. refers to the Kambojas as Kambu clan. King Ashoka's Rock Edicts V & XIII located at [[Peshawar]] write [[Kamboj]] as ''Kamboy'' or ''Kambo''. <br />
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Numerous [[Muslim]] writings of medieval era spell the Kamboj [[clan]] name as Kambu as well as Kambo. Obviously, these Kambu/Kambo terms are the corrupted forms of Kambuj/Kamboj and relate to the Kamboja of ancient Sanskrit and [[Pali]] texts and Inscriptions.{{or|date=October 2014}} This Sanskrit Kamboja appears as '' K.b.u.ji.i.y'', ''Kabujiya'' or perhaps ''Kabaujiya''/''Kaboujiya'' and ''Kambujiya'' or perhaps ''Kambaujiya'' ( OR with -n- in place of -m- as ''Kanbujiya'' or ''Kanbaujiya'') of Old Persian inscriptions, and [[Cambyses II|Cambyses]] of [[Greek language|Greek]] writings. The same name appears as ''C-n-b-n-z-y'' in [[Aramaic]], ''Kambuzia'' in [[Assyria]]n, ''Kambythet'' in [[Egyptian language|Egyptian]], ''Kam-bu-zi-ya'' or ''Ka-am-bu-zi-ya'' in [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]], ''Kan-bu-zi-ia'' or ''Kan-bu-si-ya'' in [[Elamite]], and ''Kanpuziya'' in the [[Susa]]n language (cf: ''Ancient Kamboja'' in ''Iran and Islam'', p 69, Dr H. W. Bailey).<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of kings of Cambodia]]<br />
* [[Rishi]]<br />
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* [https://archive.org/stream/kambujadesa035074mbp/kambujadesa035074mbp_djvu.txt Full text of "Kambuja Desa"]<br />
* [http://www.hsscanada.org/downloads/camp2012/ekatmata-stotra_A.pdf Ekatmata Stotra (in Sanskrit and English, Kambu mentioned on p.4)]<br />
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