Kamboi
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Kamboi is a town located in Chanasma taluka, in Patan district, in the modern Indian state of Gujarat. It is Script error: No such module "convert". west of Chanasma on the Harij-Mehsana road. It uses the postcode number of 384230.
History
Historian R. C. Majumdar describes Kamboi as being about Script error: No such module "convert". west of Anahilwara Patan. It was the site of a decisive victory in 1392 over Farhat-ul-Mulk by Zaffar Khan, who later founded the Muzaffarid dynasty.[1]
Etymology
Kamboika is stated to have been evolved from the Pali Kambojaka or Kambojika as follows:
Kambojika == > Kamboyika == > Kamboika since hard palatal j is known to change to soft y in Indo-Aryan languages and further yi == > i.
The change of palatal j to soft y is not unusual. The Shabazgarhi Inscriptions of king Ashoka also write Kamboja as Kamboya where j is replaced with y.[2][3])
To give a few more illustrations, the terms SamJogita, SamaJa, Jajman, Jadu, Jogi and GaJni etc. are also found written as SamYokita, SamaYa Yajman Yadu, Yogi and GaYni where also the j has become soft y.
And lastly, the penultimate letter k being sandwiched between two vowels gets eliminated in ancient Indo-Aryan languages following a documented procedure as noted by ancient Prakritic Grammarians. According to third century Prakritic grammarian Acharya Varuchi, the consonants k, g, ch, j, t, d, p etc. falling between two vowel sounds usually get elited.[4]
Hence KamboiKa == > Kamboi
Thus, the 15th-century records refer to this town as Kamboi.
Tourism
Jain tirtha
The Kamboi town has an old Jain tirtha (pilgrim place) at its centre. The moolnayak of this temple is a Script error: No such module "convert". white-coloured idol of Bhagawan Manamohan Parshvanath in the Padmasana posture. The idol dates back to King Samprati’s period (224 – 215 BCE). Other idols in the temple have inscriptions dating back to the 16th century. The temple was renovated in 2003.[5][6]
There is also an old temple to Siyojmata, a goddess of the town.Template:Fact
Land-locked trade port
Recent archaeological excavations have discovered that even though land-locked now, the Kamboi and Kambay had been once well known sea ports on the western coast of Gujarat. Similarly also, there was a port named Gandhar in Taluka Bhroach (ancient Bharukachcha) contiguous to Narbada.[7] This information furnished is not related to Kamboi of Chanasma taluka but it looks like the Kamboi of Jambusar taluka of bharuch district.
See also
Notes and references
Notes
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- ↑ Majumdar 1960, p. 155. "A battle was fought at Kamboi, situated about 20 miles west of Anahilwāra Patan, in which Muzaffar inflicted a crushing defeat on Farhat who was killed (A.D. 1392)."
- ↑ Shahbazgarhi Rock Edict No 5 The Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project Template:Webarchive
- ↑ No 13 The Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project Template:Webarchive
- ↑ See: E. B. Cowel, The Prakrita Prakasha, preface pp ii-iv.
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- ↑ "Ancient ports of Gujarat" Geospatial World.
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References
- Hindu Polity, A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times, Part I & II, 1978, Dr K. P. Jayswal
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- The Sind, M. C. Lambrick
- Epigraphia Indica, Vol XXIV, pp 45–46
- "Shri Kamboi Teerth" Template:Webarchive