Definitions for "Saka"
The Sakas were Iranian people stock who lived in what is now Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of Iran, Ukraine, and Altay Mountains and Siberia in Russia, in the centuries before 300 AD. They are considered to be a branch of Scythians by most scholars. Saka is the usual Persian term, while Scythian is a Greek term.
An era commencing 78 A.D. and called the era of Salivahana. Cunningham supposes its epoch to be connected with a defeat of the Sakas by Salivahana