* The Balinese New Year, based on the Saka Calendar ( Balinese-Javanese Calendar ), is called Nyepi, and it falls on Bali's Lunar New Year ( 26 March in 2009 ).

The Indo-Scythians had the name " Shaka " in South Asia, an extension on the name " Saka ".

" Asian Saka headgear is clearly visible on the Persepolis Apadana staircase bas-relief – high pointed hat with flaps over ears and the nape of the neck.

Some Pazyryk culture Saka wore short belted tunic with a lapel on a right side, upright collar, ' puffed ' sleeves narrowing at a wrist and bound in narrow cuffs of a color different from the rest of the tunic.

The national flag of Indonesia, which is known as Sang Saka Merah-Putih (" The Sacred Red-and-White ") or Bendera Merah-Putih (" The Red-and-White Flag ") or simply Merah-Putih (" The Red-and-White "), or sometimes referred to as Sang Dwiwarna (" The Bicolor ") in Indonesian is based on the banner of the 13th century Majapahit Empire in East Java.

State flags are flown on the National Independence of Indonesia on August 17, 1945 in East Road No. 56 Jakarta Pegangsaan called the Saka Heritage Flag Red and White.

Confusion arose because they were known to the Persians as Saka, however they were known to the Babylonians as Gimirrai, and both expressions are used synonymously on the trilingual Behistun inscription, carved in 515 BC on the order of Darius the Great.

Harmatta ( 1999 ) identifies the language as Khotanese Saka, tentatively translating " The vessel should hold wine of grapes, added cooked food, so much, to the mortal, then added cooked fresh butter on ".

It is a legal document, and has inscribed on it a date of Saka era 822, corresponding to April 21, 900 AD Laguna Copperplate Inscription # cite note-bibingka-1.

Nyepi, or the Day of Silence, makes the start of the Balinese Saka year, and is marked on the first day of the 10th month, Kedasa.

Akiyama is one of main character in Saka no ue no kumo ( Clouds over the slope ), a novel by Shiba Ryotaro, which was broadcast as a historical drama on the Japanese television network NHK from 2009-2011.

" One group of Indo-European speakers that makes an early appearance on the Xinjiang stage is the Saka ( Ch.

Originally the eastern side displayed the most sacred Indonesian flag, Sang Saka Merah Putih, originally raised on 17 August 1945.

When the Chinese envoy Zhang Qian described Dayuan around 128 BCE, he mentioned, besides the flourishing urban civilization, warriors " shooting arrows on horseback ", a probable description of Saka nomad warriors.

It has inscribed on it a date of Saka era 822, corresponding to May 10, 900 AD, and is written in Old Malay containing numerous loanwords from Sanskrit and a few non-Malay vocabulary elements whose origin is ambiguous between Old Javanese and Old Tagalog.

He gave way to Vikramaditya of the Chalukya dynasty, who was accompanied by adventurers from the Carnatic. It is believed that one of the adventurers encountered the Saka dynasty of Bangal another, Nanyadeva, founded the Carnatic dynasty of Mithila with its capital at Siaraon on the India-Nepal border.

A similar information on Kamboja, Saka, Yavana and other tribes is also contained in the Anusasanaparva of Mahabharata which also states that due to neglect of Brahmanas, these noble Kshatriya clans have sunken to vrishalatvam i. e. become degraded Kshariyas or Vratyas.

Pointed hats were also worn in ancient times by Saka ( Scythians ), and are shown on Hindu temples and in Hittite reliefs.

Saka was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs on September 13, 1944.

Based on the estimates of the relative ages of various personages portrayed in Lion Capital Inscriptions, Dr Stein Konow has determined that Yuvaraja Kharaosta Kamuio ( i. e. son of Artas ) was the father of Aiyasi Kamuia, the chief queen ( Agra-Mahisi ) of Saka Mahakshatrapa Rajuvula.

Rana Ratan Singh married Rani Padmini ( She along with hundreds of other women undertook Jauhar and the male members performed Saka during the siege of the Chittorgarh fort by the ignominious sultan of Delhi, Allauddin Khilji ).

In it the names of Herodotus and the names of his title, except Saka, as well as many other words for " Scythian ," such as Assyrian Aškuz and Greek Skuthēs, descend from * skeud -, an ancient Indo-European root meaning " propel, shoot " ( cf.

Ta-hia ( Daxia ) is then taken to mean the Tushara Kingdom which also included Badakshan, Chitral, Kafirstan and Wakhan According to other scholars, it were the Saka hordes alone who had put an end to the Greek kingdom of Bactria.

Kazakhs are descendants of the Turkic tribes-Argyns, Khazars, Qarluqs ; and of the Kipchaks and Cumans ( the Kipchaks and Cumans being one of their major ancestors ) Turkic groups ( Kiyat, Dughlat, Naimans, Kerait, Onggirat, Manghud, Jalayir ) and other Turkic tribes such as the Kankalis, and ancient nomads like the Sarmatians, Saka and Scythians.

In addition to tributary kingdoms, many other rulers of foreign states like the Saka and Kushan kings accepted the suzerainty of Samudragupta and offered him their services.

Similarly, numerous other ancient Indian texts like Upamiti Bhava Prapancha Katha, Abhidhamma Ratanamala, Samaraiccakaha of Haribhadra Suri, Manasollasa of Chalukya king Somesavara III, Amarakosa of Amara Simha, Asvashastra of Nakula, Karanabhara of Bhasa etc etc refer to the horses from countries like Kamboja, Bahlika, Vanayu, Sindhu, Saka, Yavana, Tushara, Khorasan, Tajik, Turushaka etc but not mention any horses from Gandhara or Asvaka country.

This prospect was obviously not liked by other Saka chiefs.

The Saka king, Rudrasimha III, demanded that Ramagupta hand over his wife Dhruvswamini in exchange for peace.

Oswald Szemerényi devotes a thorough discussion to the etymologies of ancient ethnic words for the Scythians in his work " Four old Iranian ethnic names: Scythian – Skudra – Sogdian – Saka ".

According to Turkologists Peter Golden and András Róna-Tas, the term Turk is ultimately rooted in the East Iranian Saka language:

The Goths had displaced the Sarmatians in the 2nd century from most areas near the Roman frontier, and by early medieval times, the Turkic migration marginalized East Iranian dialects, and assimilated the Saka linguistically.

The Saka ( Old Persian Sakā ; Sanskrit Śāka ; Greek ; Latin Sacae ; Old Chinese: * Sək ) were a Scythian tribe or group of tribes of Iranian origin.

Archaeological excavations also indicate that, by the 6th century BC, similar experimentation had taken place among the Iranian peoples inhabiting the Khwarezm region and Aral Sea basin, such as the Massagetae, Dahae and Saka.

Harold Walter Bailey also proposes an Iranian ( Khotanese Saka ) root for the word.

The one Tarim city state still independent of either Qarakhanid or Uyghur control at this point was Khotan, a Buddhist kingdom whose inhabitants, like those of early Kashgar and Yarkand, spoke the Iranian Saka tongue.

Like the Scythians whom Herodotus describes in book four of his History ( Saka is an Iranian word equivalent to the Greek Scythos, and many scholars refer to them together as Saka-Scythian ), Sakas were Iranian-speaking horse nomads who deployed chariots in battle, sacrificed horses, and buried their dead in barrows or mound tombs called kurgans.

The territory of Yārkand is for the first time mentioned in the Hanshu ( 1st century BCE ), under the name Shache ( Old Chinese, approximately, * s³a ( j )- ka ), which is probably related to the name of the Iranian Saka tribes.

The case for the involvement of Maitreya-nātha is also strengthened by the discovery of a Sanskrit fragment of the Ratnagotravibhāga in Saka script which mentions Maitreya-nātha as the author of the ' root ' ( mūla ) verses.

* the Sakā tigraxaudā " Saka with pointy hats / caps ",

The Chinese also record the name of the king of Dayuan as " Mu-Kua ", a Saka name rendered in Greek as Mauakes or Maues ( another Scythian ruler by the name of Maues is known as a ruler of the Indo-Scythian kingdom in northern India in the 1st century BCE ).

A new English edition, " The Saka Edition-Yalkut Yosef ", is currently being published under the leadership of Rabbi Yisrael Bitan of Haketer Institute of Jerusalem.