04-20-2005, 05:14 AM
Mudy, thanks for the info. is there any remaining members of ur community in manasarovar area? what was the reason for the migration..am just curious..u don't have to answer.
kaushal,
see here
http://www.objectsspace.com/encyclopedia...p/Kambojas
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->One school of scholars including Dr V. A. Smith, Dr Joveau Dubreuil, Dr V. Venkayya, Dr B. L. Rice, G. Coedes etc is convinced that the Pallava rulers of Kanchi/Southern India were a section from the Iranian Pahlavas (cf: G. Coedes, The Indianised States of South-East Asia, 1967, p 47. See also references quoted by Coedes in the index). The Pahlavas were a tribe closely allied to the Kambojas. Thus, some adventurous families from both Pahlavas and the Kambojas who are attested as having settled in south-west India in post-Christian era (Ref Brahatasmhita of Varahamihira (14/17) may indeed have founded the Pallava dynasty of Kanchi and the Kambuja dynasty of Cambodia respectively.
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i have seen some more references, mainly from iranian sources.
the pallava dynasty does have very vague origins, unlike the chola (both the early and the latter lines) or the pandyas and the cheras. even Kalki's book on the pallavas - Sivagamiyin sabatham - has only speculations on the origins ...not sure..have to read the book again.
anyways, the origins of the dynasty notwithstanding, the dynasty itself was a great one which in its glory had the whole of south india under its flag.
do u have any info on the so-called "white huns" / scythians ? are they one and the same? are there any communities living in india which have direct lineage to them?
thanks in advance.
kaushal,
see here
http://www.objectsspace.com/encyclopedia...p/Kambojas
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->One school of scholars including Dr V. A. Smith, Dr Joveau Dubreuil, Dr V. Venkayya, Dr B. L. Rice, G. Coedes etc is convinced that the Pallava rulers of Kanchi/Southern India were a section from the Iranian Pahlavas (cf: G. Coedes, The Indianised States of South-East Asia, 1967, p 47. See also references quoted by Coedes in the index). The Pahlavas were a tribe closely allied to the Kambojas. Thus, some adventurous families from both Pahlavas and the Kambojas who are attested as having settled in south-west India in post-Christian era (Ref Brahatasmhita of Varahamihira (14/17) may indeed have founded the Pallava dynasty of Kanchi and the Kambuja dynasty of Cambodia respectively.
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
i have seen some more references, mainly from iranian sources.
the pallava dynasty does have very vague origins, unlike the chola (both the early and the latter lines) or the pandyas and the cheras. even Kalki's book on the pallavas - Sivagamiyin sabatham - has only speculations on the origins ...not sure..have to read the book again.
anyways, the origins of the dynasty notwithstanding, the dynasty itself was a great one which in its glory had the whole of south india under its flag.
do u have any info on the so-called "white huns" / scythians ? are they one and the same? are there any communities living in india which have direct lineage to them?
thanks in advance.