Śakas
Śaka
The Śakas are a people named in several places of the Bhavishya Purāṇa.
The Pratipat vrata
Sumantu Muni tells King Śatānīka that among the Haihayas, Tālajaṅghas, Turushkas, Yavanas and Śakas, those who kept the upavāsa vrata of the first tithi gained the brāhmaṇatva they desired.
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Brahma Parva, Chapter 16
In the Kali age
The Pratisarga Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa tells that when three thousand years of the Kali age had passed, there was a king named Śaka in the city of Avantī, and in the mleccha country the king of the Śakas was ruling. It tells too that Vikramāditya came for the destruction of the Śakas and the growth of Ārya dharma. In the fourth Khaṇḍa, King Devabhakta, son of Vikrama, ruled ten years and was killed by the Śakas; his son Śālivāhana conquered the Śakas and ruled sixty years.
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 1, Chapters 4–5, 7; Khaṇḍa 4, Chapter 1
Sources
- Bhavishya Purāṇa, Brahma Parva, Chapter 16; Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 1, Chapters 4–5, 7; Khaṇḍa 4, Chapter 1