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The first Saka king of India was Maues/Moga (1st century BCE) who established Saka power in Gandhara. The Indo-Scythians extended their supremacy over north-western subcontinent, conquering the Indo-Greeks and other local kingdoms. [2] The Indo-Scythians were apparently subjugated by the Kushan Empire, by either Kujula Kadphises or Kanishka.
Cataphract-style parade armour of a Saka royal, also known as "The Golden Warrior", from the Issyk kurgan, a historical burial site near Almaty, Kazakhstan. Circa 400–200 BC. [5] [6] The Saka [a] were a group of nomadic Eastern Iranian peoples who lived in the Eurasian Steppe and the Tarim Basin from the 9th century BC to the 5th century AD.
The power of the Saka rulers began to decline during the 2nd century CE after the Indo-Scythians were defeated by the Satavahana emperor Gautamiputra Satakarni. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Indo-Scythian rule in the northwestern subcontinent ended when the last Western Satrap, Rudrasimha III , was defeated by the Gupta emperor Chandragupta II in 395 CE.
Zarinaea also referred to as Zarinaia (Saka: *Zarinayā; Ancient Greek: Ζαριναια Zarinaiā; Latin: Zarinaea) or Zarina [1] was a queen of one of the Saka tribes [2] [3] or of the Dahae [4] of the 7th century BCE who is mentioned by the Greek author Diodorus Siculus.
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Sridharavarman (Gupta script: , Shri-dha-ra-va-rmma-na, ruled c. 339 – c. 368 CE) [2] [3] was a Saka (Indo-Scythian) ruler of Central India, around the areas of Vidisa, Sanchi and Eran in the 4th century CE, just before the Gupta Empire expansion in these areas.
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