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In the 2nd century BC, many Sakas were driven by the Yuezhi from the steppe into Sogdia and Bactria and then to the northwest of the Indian subcontinent, where they were known as the Indo-Scythians. [20] [21] [22] Other Sakas invaded the Parthian Empire, eventually settling in Sistan, while others may have migrated to the Dian Kingdom in Yunnan ...
The Indo-Scythians (also called Indo-Sakas) were a group of nomadic people of Iranic Scythian origin who migrated from Central Asia southward into the northwestern Indian subcontinent: the present-day South Asian regions of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Eastern Iran and northern India. The migrations persisted from the middle of the second century BCE ...
The Indo-Scythians or Indo-Sakas were the branch of Saka empire in South Asia.Indo-Scythians were a group of nomadic Iranian peoples of Scythian origin who migrated from Central Asia southward into the northwestern Indian subcontinent.
The western Kshatrapas were also known as Sakas to Indians. [ 7 ] The title Kṣaharāta by which the Western Satraps styled themselves is a derivation of a Saka language term * xšaθrapati , meaning "lord of the country", and was likely the Saka synonym for the Indian title Kṣatrapa , which had itself been borrowed from the Iranian Median ...
Sakas were mentioned with other tribes, bringing tribute to Yudhishthira (2:50,51). Numberless Chinas and Sakas and Uddras and many barbarous tribes living in the woods, and many Vrishnis and Harahunas , and dusky tribes of the Himavat, and many Nipas and people residing in regions on the sea-coast, waited at the gate.
A tale of a climatic Battle of Alor (Sindh province of modern day Pakistan) between Chandragupta Vikramaditya and the Sakas still survived till the time of Alberuni in the 11th century CE. Chandragupta II's campaign against the Sakas was successful and the Saka Kshatrapas were wiped out. [citation needed]
For the Achaemenids, there were three types of Sakas: the Sakā tayai paradraya ("beyond the sea", presumably between the Greeks and the Thracians on the Western side of the Black Sea), the Sakā tigraxaudā ("with pointed caps"), the Sakā haumavargā ("Hauma drinkers", furthest East).
The Amyrgians (Ancient Greek: Αμύργιοι Amúrgioi; Latin: Amyrgii; Old Persian: 𐎿𐎣𐎠 𐏐 𐏃𐎢𐎶𐎺𐎼𐎥𐎠 Sakā haumavargā "Sakas who lay hauma (around the fire)") [1] [2] were a Saka tribe.