The Greeks in Bactria and India c35.42

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Sabalassa, 251 Sabazios, 334 *n.*, 423 Sabba-Sambethe, 423, 496 Sabbadinna, 422–3, 433 Sabbatistes, Sabbatistai, 423 Sacaea, 115 Saca Era, the old, 224, 348, 494–6, 499–502; name, 496; not Parthian, 494–6, 499, 502 Saca Era (A.D. 78), 335, 352, 501–2 Saca language, 63, 79, 267–8 Sacaraucae, 48, 80, 117, 275, 278; described, 291–2; conquests, 291, 294; ‘perishing of the’, 306 Sacarauli, 284. *See* Sacaraucae Sacas: generally, 79–82, 275, 299; the name, 79, 506; those ‘beyond Sogd’, 80, 291, 475; with Mithridates I, 222; settlement in Sacastene, 223; the Sacas occupy Ferghana, 84, 278–9, 475; their invasion of Parthia, 89, 281–2, 291–2, 294, 306, 320, 469, 472, 499, 501; its date, 294, 495; their supposed conquest of Bactria a myth, 283–4, 287 *n.*, 502; their invasion of India, 50, 232–3, 278, 312, 320–1, 455, 501; their first kingdom, *see* Indo-Scythia; take Taxila and Gandhāra, 322; Kapisa, 332; Mathurā, 325; take and lose Ujjain, 335; the Sacas in India, 104, 171, 173, 331, 345–6, 473; at Taxila, 179, 232, 501; satraps, 243, 325; the Western Satraps, 151, 243, 318, 335, 501; they copy the Greeks, 242–3, 300, 323, 358–9; their fleets, 91, 319–20, 322, 329, 349; early coins, 438, 502. *See* Sacaraucae, Massagetae, Saiwang, K’ang-kiu, Maues, Azes, Ki-pin Sacastene, 95, 223, 320, 344, 471–2, 499, 500, 502, and *see* Seistan Sāgala, 61, 133, 145, 177–8, 239, 318, 325; Menander’s capital, 49, 98, 171, 247, 414, 420–1, 435; mint, 357, 438. *See* Euthymedeia Sagalassos, 250 Saharanpur, 239 Sai-wang, 275–8, 291–2, 321, 336, 516 Sāketa, 145–6, 180, 228, 453–5, 459 Sakuntalā, 384 Salagissa, 250 Sāmaññaphala Sutta, 415–16 Samarcand, 102, 117, 277, 280, 307 Samaria (Fayûm), 366, 444; (Palestine), 444 Samariane, 444 Sambethe. *See* Sabba-Sambethe