Saka : nomads from central Asia who began to invade India in waves from 2nd cent. BC. They were encountered & repulsed by King Vikramāditya of Ujjayini; but later settled in western India where they were gradually absorbed in native life.
... beasts...." The author adds on archaeological evidence that "she alone of all their deities figures in art". "Tahiti" is the Saka-Scythian appellation; "Hestia" (the Greek goddess of the hearth) is Herodotus's gloss for his readers. So, contrary to Parpola's understanding, the Saka Haumavarga - Irānians that they were - had their minds chiefly on Fire, rather than on the presumed Soma, in spite of the... published by T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1925, Vol. I, pp. 333-34. 265.Edition 1977, Vol. 16, p. 440, col. 1. Page 314 two other tribes whom he calls "Saka Tigrakhauda" -"wearers of pointed helmets" - and "Saka Paradaraya" -"dwellers beyond the sea". The next mistake of Parpola is his failure to realise that actually in the account of Herodotus there is no suggestion of Soma... cultures in the region where in the first millennium B.C. the Saka Haumavarga are found. The late Scythians like these inter no animal except the horse. Again a striking contrast. Whatever may be some general resemblances among the occupants of the area concerned down the ages, it is impossible to ignore radical differences and to label as Saka Haumavarga (no matter what the term's significance) the early ...
... Sahni, M.R., 190-91, 192 Sahni, Rao Bahadur Dayaram, 245 sak, 320 Saka Haumavarga/Haumawarga, 283, 313-25, 365 Saka Paradaraya, 315, 321-2 Saka Tigrakhauda, 315, 321 Sakalya, 378 Sakas, 206, 315-25 Sakas, Haumavarga, see Saka Haumavarga samba-, 296 Samara, 277 Sambara, 283, 296, 302-5, 312, 327-9... dasa, 206-7, 346-9, 362 dasyu, 207 Haumavarga, 209, 318-19 maya, 384-5, 388 pant, 207, 291-3, 346-9 Rasā/Ranhā, 284, 286 Saka, 320 Sambara, 296 Varuṇa, 395-6, 400-401 Vritra, 396 ewe (in the Rigveda), 345 Excavation at Mitathal and other explorations..., by S. Bhan, 224 ... 400, 403, 419 Indo-European, 314 Iranian, 282, 314, 419 of Asuras, 366-7 Rigvedic/Vedic, 208-10, 230, 255, 299-300, 308, 309, 313-14, 352, 369-71, 395-99, 412 Saka, 314-17 Renfrew, Colin, 185, 254, 255, 257, 259, 260, 262, 263, 276, 337 Rgveda, see Rigveda Ribhus, 360 rice, 236-8, 241, 242, 271, 279-80 Rigveda/Rgveda Saṁhitā ...
... clear ray of his perception. Pulakesin II's Aihole inscription of 634 A.D. shows Indian chronology in vogue fixing 3102 B.C. as the date of the start of the Kahvuga, while also referring to the Saka Era of 78 A.D. According to modern historians, this is the time of the Gupta Empire, when this system of chronology was made up by the Puranic writers. Now, according to the Puranas the Guptas... linked with other Mandasor inscriptions: that the Malawa ruler Yasodharman (Malawa 589, i.e. 122 B.C.) might be the source of the legend of Vikramaditya; and that Mihirakula whom he defeated was a Saka and not, as supposed by historians without adequate evidence, a Huna. Sethna exposes yet another Fleetian conjecture regarding Skandagupta battling the Hunas by contacting the epigraphist D.C... Ceylon dealt not with Asoka but with Samudragupta; the Kushana Dynasty imitated features of the Guptas on their coins instead of the other way about as historians argue: Al-beruni testifies to two Saka Eras, one of 57 B.C. probably commemmorating Yasodharman's victory, and the other of 78 A.D. by Salivahana who was possibly of the Satavahana Dynasty; the Mehrauli Iron Pillar inscription is by ...
... natural than that the reciter should substitute for an old and now disused word the one which was familiar to his audience? Again much has been made of the frequent occurrence of Yavana, Vahlika, Pehlava, Saka, Huna. As to Yavana its connection 'Iάων with does not seem to me beyond doubt. It had certainly been at one time applied to the Bactrian Greeks, but so it has been and is to the present day applied ...
... the throne of Minto, who could recognize in the Lords of today the Rajas and Maharajas of modern India, the sons of the great Kshatriya blood? Minto and Morley are the representatives of Yavana and Saka of old. Did the princes of ancient India go out of their way to kneel before their throne? Was that the glory of Hinduism? Or are we witnessing a revival of the days when Asoka ruled over the Asiatic ...
... race may be due to a memory of the clash of the two continents and their races. However, coming to historical times, we see wave after wave of the most heterogeneous and disparate elements – Sakas and Huns and Greeks, each bringing its quota of exotic material enter into the oceanic Indian life and culture, lose their separate foreign identity and become part and parcel of the common whole. ...
... Dravidian race may be due to a memory of the clash of the two continents and their races. However, coming to historical times, we see wave after wave of the most heterogeneous and disparate elements—Sakas and Huns and Greeks, each bringing its quota of exotic material— enter into the oceanic Indian life and culture, lose their separate foreign identity and become part and parcel of the common whole. ...
... Dravidian race may be due to a memory of the clash of the two continents and their races. However, coming to historical times, we see wave after wave of the most heterogeneous and disparate elements—Sakas and Huns and Greeks, each bringing its quota of exotic material—enter into the oceanic Indian life and culture, lose their separate foreign identity and become part and parcel of the common whole. ...
... converted the pagan and peace-loving people of Arabia into a group of marauding conquerors. India with her powerful assimilative capacity had absorbed the earlier aggressions of the Greeks, the Sakas, the Kushanas and the Hunas; and it is certain that in normal circumstances, the culturally and temperamentally compassionate society of the Hindus would have absorbed the Arab and Turk invaders too ...
... regarded as refering to the birth of kumāragupta who was the son and successor of chandragupta II. As a matter of fact, the title of vikramāditya was assumed by chandragupta after defeating the Sakas in AD 395. Both the above mentioned theories, viz., the Gupta theory and the traditional theory, may be regarded as prodable, for there isa definite reference made by the poet to the king vikramāditya ...
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