- Cambyses (disambiguation)
Cambyses or Cambese (Greek: polytonic|Καμβύσης;
Old Persian "Kambujiya") is the name of three members of theAchaemenid line of ancient Persia:*Cambyses, son of
Teispes of Anshan , father ofCyrus I , ["Herod., VII.II."] didn't rule.
*Cambyses I of Anshan was a son ofCyrus I , and ruled Anshan from 600 to 559 BCE. He was a Persian king of good family, to whom kingAstyages of Media, had married his daughter Mandane. The issue of this union wasCyrus II ["Herod., I, 46, 107".] .
*Cambyses II of Persia was son and successor ofCyrus II (orCyrus the Great ) and ruled Persia from 530 to 522 BCE. He conqueredEgypt . [See for details: Family of Achaemenids, The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, pp 252-53, Herodotus [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC16772234&id=NzzYX4ZCmPgC&pg=PA252&lpg=PA253&dq=%22Cambyses+III%22] ; Classical Literature of Antiquities, 1963, p 201, Editor Harry Thurston Peck.] .The same name appears as "Kambujiya" (or perhaps "Kambaujiya" or "Kamboujiya") in
Old Persian , asKamboja in the Indian epicMahabharata , as "C-n-b-n-z-y" inAramaic , "Kambuzia" inAssyria n, "Kambythet" in Egyptian, "Kam-bu-zi-ia" in Akkadian, "Kan-bu-zi-ia" inElamite , and "Kanpuziya" in Susian language. It appears to have been a very popular name among ancientIran ians. The royal Old Persian name "Kambujiya" or "Kambaujiya" of the Achaemenid line has been linked by numerous scholars with theSanskrit /Pāli ethnonymKamboja [See: Ramayana of Valmiki, Canto No VI, The King, p 14, fn 13:6, Ralph T. H. Griffth: i.e "Name Kamboja is etymologically connected with Cambyses which in the cuneiform inscription of Behistun is written Ka(m)bujia"; "Der Name Kambyses (Kanbujiya)", ZII 2, 1923, pp. 140-52, 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",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", Michael Witzel; "The Home of the Aryan, p 6, footnote 11", Michael Witzel, Harvard University. Other prominent scholars include C. Lassen,A. A. Macdonell ,A. B. Keith , G. Kuhn, A. Hoffman, G. K. Nariman, S. Levi,H. W. Bellew , Dr Markwart, S. Sen, D. R. Bhandarkar, V. S. Aggarwala, Musa Khan Jalzai etc.] [http://books.google.com/books?id=kQ6zTASmo6kC&pg=PA18&dq=Harmatta+two+most+cited+readings&sig=MLzfVWvuYZFnaS6BN3wnFurlKhc .] .References
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