The Sakas are a peoples that lived in what is now Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Iran, Ukraine, and Altai and Siberia in Russia, in the centuries before 300 AD. They are considered to be a branch of Scythians by most scholars. Saka is the usual Persian term, while Scythian is a Greek term. Some of their neighbours included the Sarmatians, Issedones and Massagetae. Their language is poorly known, but seems to have originally been a member of the Iranian family (though some question wheth ...

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• Saka - Connection theories
• Saka - Asian peoples
• Saka - European peoples
• Saka - Sakas in Ancient Indian Literature
• Saka - Degraded Kṣatriyas from the northwest
• Saka - Military actions
• Saka - Military alliance with Chandragupta circa 320 BCE

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The following sections deal mostly with popular traditions of Saka descent found among numerous Asian and European peoples. The Saka/Scythians are considered by mainstream historians and linguists as being Indo-Europeans who spoke a language in the Northern branch of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian also Aryan family of the Indo-European languages. The two surviving modern languages closest to Scythian are Ossetian in the Caucausus moun ...

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Saka, Saka - Connection theories, Saka - Asian peoples, Saka - European peoples, Saka - Sakas in Ancient Indian Literature, Saka - Degraded Kshatriyas from the northwest, Saka - Military actions, Saka - Military alliance with Chandragupta circa 320 BCE

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The Indo-Scythians were named "Shaka" in India, an extension on the name Saca used by the Persians to designate Scythians. Shakas receive numerous mentions in texts like the Puranas, the Manusmriti, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Mahabhasiya of Patanjali, the Brhat Samhita of Vraha Mihira, the Kavyamimamsa, the Brihat-Katha-Manjari, the Katha-Saritsagara and several other old texts. The Shakas are described as part of an amalgam of other war-like tribes from the northwest. See also:

Saka, Saka - Connection theories, Saka - Asian peoples, Saka - European peoples, Saka - Sakas in Ancient Indian Literature, Saka - Degraded Kshatriyas from the northwest, Saka - Military actions, Saka - Military alliance with Chandragupta circa 320 BCE

Read more here: » Saka: Encyclopedia II - Saka - Sakas in Ancient Indian Literature