Talk:Kamboh

This article was proposed for deletion June 2005. Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Kamboh

-- Joyous (talk) July 7, 2005 21:54 (UTC)

Deletion for that article

That article shall be deleted by the admins because kai-khosrow is a hero in the Shahnama,a fiction first mentioned by firdowsi and by noone. The term Kamboja has no roots in kai-kous.

--84.59.118.198 13:26, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

While discussing Kambujiya of old Persian Inscriptions (Cambyses/Kambyses of the Greeks, Kamboja of Sanskrit or Kamoj of Kafirstan/Nurestan), Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, 1990 observes as under: "Kambujiya, Kabujiya, Cambyse: This is the true vernacular orthography of name which was written Kambyses by the Greeks and Kauvays in Zend ……From the name of a king Kambyses was derived the geographical title of Kamboja (Sanskrit), which is retained to present days in the Kamoj of Cafferstan……The Persian historians do not seem to be aware of the name Kabus, which was born by the Dilemite sovereigns, is the same with the Kaus of Romance; yet the more ancient form of Kaubus or Kabuj for latter name, renders the identification also most certain. The Georgians, even to the present day, name the hero of romance Kapus still retaining the labial which has merged in the Persian…." (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Published 1990, p 97, Cambridge University, Press for the Royal Asiatic Society [etc.], By Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland; Cf: Reisen im indischen Archipel, Singapore, Batavia, Manilla und Japan, 1869, p 216; Die Voelker des Oestlichen Asien: Studien und Reisen, 1869, p 216, Dr Philip Wilhelm Adolf Bastian) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Satbir Singh (talk • contribs) 02:20, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]