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Encyclopedia Britannica



SAKA, or SHAKA

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 53 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAC-SAR
SAKA, or SHAKA , the name of one or more tribes which invaded India from Central Asia. The word is used loosely, especially by Hindu authors, to designate all the tribes which from time to time invaded India from the north, much as all the tribes who invaded China are indiscriminately termed
Tatars
 . Used more accurately, it denotes the tribe which invaded India 13o140 B.C. They are the Sacae and Sakai of classical authors and the Se of the Chinese, which may represent an
original
  Sek or Sok. The Chinese annalists state that they were a
pastoral
  people who lived in the neighbourhood of the modern Kashgar. About 16o B.C. they were driven southward by the advance of the Yue-Chi from the
east
 . One portion appears to have settled in western Afghanistan, hence called Sakasthana, in modern Persian Sejistan. The other section occupied the Punjab and possessed themselves of the territory which the Graeco-Bactrian kings had acquired in India, that is Sind, Gujarat and Malwa. The rulers of these provinces bore the title of Satrap (Kshatrapa or Chhatrapa) and were apparently subordinate to a king who ruled over the valley of Kabul and the Punjab. In 57 B.C. the Sakas were attacked simultaneously by Parthians from the west and by the Malaya clans from the
east
  and their power was destroyed. It should be added that what we know of
Saka
  history is mostly derived from coins and
inscriptions
  which admit ,of various interpretations and that scholars are by no means agreed as to names and.
dates
 . In any case their power, if it lasted so long, must have been swept away by the Kushan conquest of Northern India.
Nothing is known of the language or race of the Sakas. Like most of the invaders of India at this period they adopted Buddhism, at least partially. They can be traced to the neighbourhood of Kashgar, but not like the Yue-Chi to the frontiers of China. They may have been Turanians akin to that tribe,or they may have been Iranians akin to the Iranian
element
  in Transoxiana and the districts south of the Pamirs. They cannot be the same as the Scythians of Europe, though the name and
original
  nomadic life are points in common.
See Vincent
Smith
 , Early History of India (19o8); O. Franke, Beitrage aus chinesischen Quellen zur Kenntnis der Tiirkvolker and Skythen (19o4); P. Gardner, Coins of Greek and Scythian Kings in India (1886); and various articles by Vincent
Smith
 ,
Fleet
 , Cunningham, A Stein, Sylvain Levi and others in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Journal asiatique, Indian Antiquary, Zeitsch. der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft, &c. (C. EL.)


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