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'''Kamboi''' is a town located in Chanasma [[taluk|taluka]], in [[Patan district]], in the modern Indian [[States of India|state]] of [[Gujarat]]. It is {{convert|10|km|mi}} west of [[Chanasma]] on the [[Harij]]-[[Mehsana]] road. It uses the [[postcode]] number of 384230.<br />
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==History==<br />
Historian [[R. C. Majumdar]] describes Kamboi as being about {{convert|20|km|mi}} west of [[Patan, Gujarat|Anahilwara Patan]]. It was the site of a decisive victory in 1392 over Farhat-ul-Mulk by Zaffar Khan, who later founded the [[Muzaffarids (Gujarat)|Muzaffarid dynasty]].<ref>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)."</ref><br />
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==Etymology==<br />
Kamboika is stated to have been evolved from the [[Pāli|Pali]] ''Kambojaka'' or ''Kambojika'' as follows:<br />
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'''Kambojika == > Kamboyika == > Kamboika''' since hard palatal j is known to change to soft y in Indo-Aryan languages and further ''yi'' == > ''i''.<br />
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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.<ref>[http://depts.washington.edu/ebmp/etext.php?cki=CKI0005 Shahbazgarhi Rock Edict No 5] ''The Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project'' {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060414055052/http://depts.washington.edu/ebmp/etext.php?cki=CKI0005 |date=14 April 2006 }}</ref><ref>[http://depts.washington.edu/ebmp/etext.php?cki=CKI0013 No 13] ''The Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project'' {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060216162559/http://depts.washington.edu/ebmp/etext.php?cki=CKI0013 |date=16 February 2006 }}</ref>)<br />
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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.<br />
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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 [[Prakrit]]ic Grammarians. According to third century Prakritic [[Philologist|grammarian]] Acharya Varuchi, the consonants k, g, ch, j, t, d, p etc. falling between two vowel sounds usually get elited.<ref>See: E. B. Cowel, The Prakrita Prakasha, preface pp ii-iv.</ref><br />
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Hence Kamboi'''K'''a == > '''Kamboi'''<br />
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Thus, the 15th-century records refer to this town as '''Kamboi'''.<br />
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==Tourism==<br />
===Jain tirtha===<br />
The Kamboi town has an old [[Jain]] [[Tirtha (Jainism)|tirtha]] (''pilgrim place'') at its centre. The [[moolnayak]] of this temple is a {{convert|2.5|ft|m}} white-coloured idol of Bhagawan Manamohan Parshvanath in the Padmasana posture. The idol dates back to [[Samprati|King Samprati’s]] period (224 – 215 BCE). Other idols in the temple have inscriptions dating back to the 16th century.<br />
The temple was renovated in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://jainsite.com/jain-tirth/kamboi-tirth/|title = KAMBOI TIRTH – the Jainsite World's Largest Jain Website}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jainjagat.com/viewtemple.php/Date/1883/66|title=Shri Kamboi Teerth Patan Gujarat India|access-date=25 September 2005|archive-date=1 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201005932/http://www.jainjagat.com/viewtemple.php/Date/1883/66|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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There is also an old temple to [[Siyojmata]], a goddess of the town.{{fact|date=December 2018}}<br />
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==Land-locked trade port==<br />
Recent [[Archaeology|archaeological]] [[Excavation (archaeology)|excavations]] have discovered that even though [[land-locked]] now, the Kamboi and [[Cambay|Kambay]] had been once well known sea ports on the western coast of Gujarat. Similarly also, there was a port named [[Gandhara|Gandhar]] in Taluka Bhroach (ancient Bharukachcha) contiguous to [[Narmada River|Narbada]].<ref>[http://geospatialworld.net/Paper/Application/ArticleView.aspx?aid=316 "Ancient ports of Gujarat"] ''Geospatial World''.</ref> This information furnished is not related to Kamboi of Chanasma taluka but it looks like the Kamboi of Jambusar taluka of bharuch district. <br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Kamboja-Dvaravati Route]]<br />
* [[Kambojas]]<br />
* [[Kumbhoj]]<br />
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==Notes and references==<br />
===Notes===<br />
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===References===<br />
* Hindu Polity, A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times, Part I & II, 1978, Dr K. P. Jayswal<br />
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Majumdar |editor1-first=Ramesh Chandra |editor1-link=R. C. Majumdar |editor2-last=Pusalker |editor2-first=A. D. |editor3-last=Majumdar |editor3-first=A. K. |date=1960 |title=[[The History and Culture of the Indian People]] |volume=VI: The Delhi Sultanate |location=Bombay |publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan}}<br />
* The Sind, M. C. Lambrick<br />
* [[Epigraphia Indica]], Vol XXIV, pp 45–46<br />
* [http://www.jainjagat.com/viewtemple.php/Date/1883/66 "Shri Kamboi Teerth"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201005932/http://www.jainjagat.com/viewtemple.php/Date/1883/66 |date=1 December 2016 }}<br />
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