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Kamboja was the ancient name of a country and the Tribe settled therein. Buddhist Jatakas , Yaska 's Nirukata , Herodotus (Book I.140), Avestic texts and numerous Brahmanical literature indicate that Kamboja was the center of Iranian Civilization . This is evident from the Mazdean religious customs of ancient Kambojas as well as from the Avestic Dialect they spoke. It is also widely accepted among the scholars that the Kambojas formed Avestan speaking group of the East Iranian s and were located mainly in north-eastern parts of Afghanistan and parts of Tajikstan . It is also stated that that the Zoroastrian Religion had originated in ''East Iran'' in the land of the Kambojas.


YASKA'S NIRUKATA ON KAMBOJAS

Seventh century BCE Nirukata of Yaska contrasts the speech of the Kambojas with that of the Aryan s i.e Indo-Aryans :

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