Kamboi

Kamboi is a town located in Chanasma taluka, in Patan district, in the modern Indian state of Gujarat. It is 10km west of Chanasma on the Harij-Mehsana road. It uses the postcode number of 384230.HistoryHistorian R. C. Majumdar describes Kamboi as being about 20km 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.EtymologyKamboika 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.)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.