The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c31.11

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(1) The Sakā Tigrakhaudā, ‘wearers of pointed helmets.’ They are so described by Herodotus (vii, 64), who states that they were included together with their neighbours, the Bactrians, in the army of Xerxes. They were therefore the Çakas whose home was in the country of the river Jaxartes (the Syr Daria).