- The Sakas or the Scythians attacked the Bactria and Parthia and captured them from the Greek rulers
- There were two different groups of Sakas- the Northern Satraps ruling from Taxila and the western satraps ruling over Maharashtra
- The founder of Saka rule in India in the first century BCE was Maues
- His son and successor was Azes I, considered to be the founder of the Vikram era
- Saka rulers of Taxila were overthrown by Parthians
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