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See also:SAKA, or SHAKA , the name of one or more tribes which invaded See also:India from Central See also:Asia. The word is used loosely, especially by See also:Hindu authors, to designate all the tribes which from See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to time invaded India from the See also:north, much as all the tribes who invaded See also:China are indiscriminately termed See also:Tatars. Used more accurately, it denotes the tribe which invaded India 13o—140 B.C. They are the Sacae and See also:Sakai of classical authors and the Se of the See also:Chinese, which may represent an See also:original Sek or Sok. The Chinese See also:annalists See also:state that they were a See also:pastoral See also:people who lived in the neighbourhood of the See also:modern See also:Kashgar. About 16o B.C. they were driven southward by the advance of the Yue-Chi from the See also:east. One portion appears to have settled in western See also:Afghanistan, hence called Sakasthana, in modern See also:Persian Sejistan. The other See also:section occupied the See also:Punjab and possessed themselves of the territory which the Graeco-Bactrian See also:kings had acquired in India, that is See also:Sind, See also:Gujarat and See also:Malwa. The rulers of these provinces See also:bore the See also:title of See also:- SATRAP [Pers. Khshatrapavan, i.e." protector (superintendent) of the country (or district)," Heb. sakhshadrapan, Gr. taerpan-ris (insc. of Miletus, Sitzungsber. Berl. Ak. 1900, 112), E% u3pa7eixav (insc. of Mylasa, Dittenberger, Sylloge, 95), ital. p6. rr
Satrap (Kshatrapa or Chhatrapa) and were apparently subordinate to a See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king who ruled over the valley of See also:Kabul and the Punjab. In 57 B.C. the Sakas were attacked simultaneously by Parthians from the See also:west and by the Malaya clans from the east and their See also:power was destroyed. It should be added that what we know of Saka See also:history is mostly derived from coins and See also:inscriptions which admit ,of various interpretations and that scholars are by no means agreed as to names and. See also:dates. In any See also:case their power, if it lasted so See also:long, must have been swept away by the Kushan See also:conquest of See also:Northern India.
Nothing is known of the See also:language or See also:race of the Sakas. Like most of the invaders of India at this See also:period they adopted See also: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 See also:element in Transoxiana and the districts See also:south of the See also:Pamirs. They cannot be the same as the Scythians of See also:Europe, though the name and original nomadic See also:life are points in See also:common.
See See also:Vincent See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith, See also:Early History of India (19o8); O. Franke, Beitrage aus chinesischen Quellen zur Kenntnis der Tiirkvolker and Skythen (19o4); P. See also:Gardner, Coins of See also:Greek and Scythian Kings in India (1886); and various articles by Vincent Smith, See also:Fleet, See also:Cunningham, A See also:Stein, Sylvain See also:Levi and others in the See also:Journal of the Royal See also:Asiatic Society, Journal asiatique, See also:Indian See also:Antiquary, Zeitsch. der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft, &c. (C.
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