3. Saka m. pl. N. of a partic. white-skinned tribe or race of people (in the legends which relate the contests between Vasiṣṭha and Viśvāmitra the Śaka s are fabled to have been produced by the Cow of Vasiṣṭha , from her sweat, for the destruction of Viśvāmitra 's army; in Mn. x, 44 , they are mentioned together with the Pauṇḍraka s, Oḍra s, Draviḍa s, Kāmboja s, Javana s or Yavana s, Pārada s, Pahlava s, Cīna s, Kirāta s, Darada s, and Khaśa s, described by, Kull. as degraded tribes of Kṣatriya s called after the districts in which they reside: according to the VP. iv, 3 , king Sagara attempted to rid his kingdom of these tribes, but did not succeed in destroying them all : they are sometimes regarded as the followers of Śaka or Śāli-vāhana , and are probably to be identified with the Tartars or Indo-Scythians [ Lat. Sacæ ] who overran India before the Āryans , and were conquered by the great Vikramāditya [ q.v. ]; they really seem to have been dominant in the north-west of India in the last century before and the first two centuries after the beginning of our era), AV.Pariś. ; Mn. ; MBh. &c.
Saka N. of a tribe inhabiting the countries on the north-western frontier of India, the Sacæ of the classical writers, and generally identified with the Scythians.