Kapiśa is related to and includes Kafiristan. The scholarly community holds that Kapiśa is equivalent to the Sanskrit Kamboja. Kamboja and Kapiśa are believed to be two attempts to render the same foreign word (which could not appropriately be transliterated into Sanskrit). Dr. S. Levi holds that Persian Kambujiya or Kau(n)bojiya, Sanskrit Kamboja as well as Kapiśa, all etymologically refer to the same foreign word. The evidence from third century Buddhist tantra text Mahamayuri, which uses Kabusha for Kapisha, and the Ramayana-manjri by Sanskrit Acharya, Kshmendra of Kashmir (11th century), which specifically equates Kapiśa with Kamboja, thus substituting the former with the latter, sufficiently attest that Kapiśa and Kamboja are the same. According to the Indian history series: History a