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version of Bhāvadevsuri it is stated that Kalaka "went to the Scythian bank situated on the other side of the Sindhu" (Sindhu-parakulammi sagakulam gao muni?) whereas, according to the Sriviravaky-anumatam recension, Kalaka "went to the western bank of the Sindhu river" (surir gata eva Sindhornadyastaṭam Paschimparsvakulam3). The Nisithachurni, and the Kathavali of Bhadresvara 10 refer to the destination of Kalaka as the Persian bank (Parasakulam).11
In the land in question lived the Sahi, whose overlord was the Sāhānusāhi (i.e. the king of Kings). Kālaka stayed with the former. To this Sahi there came a messenger from the Sahānusāhi, demanding his death as well as that of ninety-five other Shāhis. In order to escape the wrath of their master the Sahis were advised by Kalaka to go to Hindukadeśa (Mālavadeśa) in one (?) version12 and the kingdom of Gardabhilla in another. 13 According to the Long Anonymous Version, the Hindukadesa could be reached by crossing the Sindhu or the Indus. 14
The Sahis crossed the Indus and came to the land of Surashtra. There they settled for some time and then proceeded to Ujjayini. The city was besieged and Gardabhilla was ousted. Sarasvati was reestablished in the discipline.
The Sahis began to rule the conquered land with that Sahi, to whom Kalaka had resorted, as their overlord. Thus arose the family of the Sagas or Sakas.15
7. Ibid, p. 89 v. 32. The Pushpamala of Maladhari Sri Hemachandrasuri also states that Kalaka went to the other side of the Sindhu called the Saga bank" (Sagakulam nama Simdhuparakulam) (Nawab, op. cit, pt II, p. 27, v. 37).
8. N. Brown, Op. cit, p. 99. V. 34.
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Nisithachurnni, 10 Uddesa.
10. Bhadresvara, Kathavali (N. Brown, op. cit., p. 102, S.M. Nawab, Op, cit. pt. II. p. 41)
11. N. Brown, Op. cit. p. 102.
12. Haya-Padiniva-Payavo version (N. Brown, Op. cit., p. 974, V. 52; see also S.M. Nawab, Op. cit., pt. II, p. 205, v. 52).
13. Bhadresvara's Kathavali; (N Brown, Op.cit., p. 103; S.M. Nawab, Op.cit., 37).
14. N. Brown, Op.cit.. p. 41. See also the version of Vinayachandrasuri (S.M. Nawab, Op.cit., pt. II, p. 97, v. 25).
15. According to the Nisitha-churnni the Sagakula or the Saka family was established in Suratta (i.e Surashtra) during the sojourn of Kalaka and the Shahis in that region.
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