northwest, but were assimilated into the Indian community as Kshatriyas. Non-Orthodox Kshatriyas Siddhartha Gautama was born into a Hindu Kshatriya family Though the Ashtadhyayi of Panini (sutra 4.1.168-175) attests that the Kamboja and Gandhara were very important Kshatriya kingdoms of Uttarapatha during or prior to Paninian times (500 BC), they came