Cambyses

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Cambyses or Cambese (Greek: Καμβύσης; Old Persian Kambujiya) is the name of three members of the Achaemenid line of ancient Persia:

• Cambyses, son of Teispes of Anshan, father of Cyrus I,^[1] didn't rule.
• Cambyses I of Anshan was a son of Cyrus I, and ruled Anshan from 600 to 559 BCE. He was a Persian king of good family, to whom king Astyages of Media, had married his daughter Mandane. The issue of this union was Cyrus II ^[2].
• Cambyses II of Persia was son and successor of Cyrus II (or Cyrus the Great) and had ruled Persia from 530 to 522 BCE. He conquered Egypt, and brought havoc to that country. ^[3].

The same name appears as Kambujiya (or perhaps Kambaujiya or Kamboujiya) in Old Persian, as Kamboja in the Indian epic Mahabharata, as C-n-b-n-z-y in Aramaic, Kambuzia in Assyrian, Kambythet in Egyptian, Kam-bu-zi-ia in Akkadian, Kan-bu-zi-ia in Elamite, and Kanpuziya in Susian language. It appears to have been a very popular name among ancient Iranians. The royal Old Persian name Kambujiya or Kambaujiya of the Achaemenid line has been linked by numerous scholars with the Sanskrit/Pāli ethnonym Kamboja ^[4].

[edit] References

1. ^ Herod., VII.II.
2. ^ Herod., I, 46, 107.
3. ^ See for details: Family of Achaemenids, The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, pp 252-53, Herodotus [1]; Classical Literature of Antiquities, 1963, p 201, Editor Harry Thurston Peck.
4. ^ See: Der Name Kambyses (Kanbuji­ya), ZII 2, 1923, pp. 140-52, Dr. J. Charpentier; L'Inde aux temps des Maurya, p. 15 and 40. La Valle Poussin; Early Zoroastrian, 2005, p 45, James Hope Moulton, Kessinger Publishing; Ancient Kamboja, Iran and Islam, 1971, p 68-71, Dr H. W. Bailey; Kyros, Beitrage zur Namen-forschung, II (1964), p 210, Dr. W. Eiler; Aryan and Non-Aryan Names in Vedic India, Data for Linguistic situation, C 1900-500 BC, footnote 24, Dr Michael Witzel; The Home of the Aryan, p 6, footnote 11, Dr Michael Witzel, Harvard University. Other prominent scholars include Dr C. Lassen, Dr. A. A. Macdonnel, Dr A. B. Keith, Dr G. Kuhn, Dr A Hoffman, Dr G. K. Nariman, Dr S. Levi, H. W. Bellew, Dr Markwart, Dr S. Sen, Dr D. R. Bhandarkar, Dr V. S. Aggarwala, Musa Khan Jalzai etc.