Cambari
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Cambari was a river of Seres (Siberia) mentioned by Pliny.[1]
Variants
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Kambalia = Cambari (Pliny.vi.20).
Mention by Pliny
Pliny[2] mentions The Seres.... The first river that is known in their territory is the Psitharas,9 next to that the Cambari, and the third the Laros; after which we come to the Promontory of Chryse,10 the Gulf of Cynaba, the river Atianos, and the nation of the Attacori on the gulf of that name, a people protected by their sunny hills from all noxious blasts, and living in a climate of the same temperature as that of the Hyperborei. Amometus has written a work entirely devoted to the history of these people, just as Hecatæus has done in his treatise on the Hyperborei.
9 Ptolemy speaks of it as the Œchordas.
10 The headland of Malacca, in the Aurea Chersonnesns, was also called by this name, but it is hardly probable that that is the place here meant.