pe61:ful: though they are bGiisidered as heretics,' anC'fanked of course 

 ameng the impure tribes. - - ' 



They are represented as living originally in the countries bordering on 

 the Chacshu or Oxus, We find them afterwards spreading themselves 

 into P<?m^z." and in the Harivansa, se6tion the 13th, we find that Raja 

 Ba'hu was worsted by the 'Sacas, and the greatest part of his country 

 taken from him by them, in conjunt^ion with the Tavanas, thoae of 

 Camhdja or Ga2;«/, the Paradas^ Pahiavas, the Haihayas or Pers^ians, diXidi 

 the Tdla-janghas. His son Sag ara, having ohtmnQd: tkiQAgniy dstr am ^qt 

 fite arms, (whatever they were,) from Aurva-Rishi, attacked the 'Baca's 

 and the confederates, and after several bloody conflifts, ojiliged them to 

 submit. He wanted to extirpatelhe whole race ; but they applied to the 

 sage Vasishtha, who pacified Sagara in some measure, and granted them 

 life on very harsh conditions, ^ He ordered the Tava7i as to shave their 

 heads entirely; the '5^ac>?5 half, only; he spared ^e Cambojas^ but shaved 

 the beards of the Pahhvas, and forbad them all t(?> perform the piljd and 

 homi^ according to the usual rites of the Cshettris or warriors, to which 

 class they belonged. It^w^;s at that time, according to learned Pandits^ 

 that the ^Sacas began their emigrations toward the west ; and this is cer- 

 tainly probable enough. Ra'ja Ba'hu and his son Sagara, according to 

 the genealogical scale prefixed to my essay on the chronology of the 

 Hindus^ lived about 2000 years before the Christian era. The 'Sacas^ 

 who lived to the north of the Danube , declsLved to Herodotus, that from 

 their first settlement in that country, to the invasion of Darius, there 

 were exa61ily 1000 years, neither more nor less. This shows that they did 

 not speak at random, and that their reckoning may be depended on. 

 This places their permanent settlement in that part of the country, €%-= 

 a6lly 1508 before Christ, 



