See su-śáka.
śáka n. excrement, ordure, dung (cf. śakan, śakṛt), [AV.]
water (v.l. for kaśa), [Naigh. i, 12]
śáka m. a kind of animal, [Pañcar.] (v.l. śala)
w.r. for śuka, [MBh. xiii, 2835]
m. pl. N. of a partic. white-skinned tribe or race of people (in the legends which relate the contests between Vasiṣṭha and Viśvāmitra the Śakas are fabled to have been produced by the Cow of Vasiṣṭha, from her sweat, for the destruction of Viśvāmitra's army; in [Mn. x, 44], they are mentioned together with the Pauṇḍrakas, Oḍras, Draviḍas, Kāmbojas, Javanas or Yavanas, Pāradas, Pahlavas, Cīnas, Kirātas, Daradas, and Khaśas, described by, [Kull.] as degraded tribes of Kṣatriyas called after the districts in which they reside: according to the [VP. iv, 3], king Sagara attempted to rid his kingdom of these tribes, but did not succeed in destroying them all : they are sometimes regarded as the followers of Śaka or Śāli-vāhana, and are probably to be identified with the Tartars or Indo-Scythians [Lat. Sacæ] who overran India before the Āryans, and were conquered by the great Vikramāditya [q.v.]; they really seem to have been dominant in the north-west of India in the last century before and the first two centuries after the beginning of our era), [AV.Pariś.]; [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
a king of the Śakas g. kambojādi (on, [Pāṇ. iv, 1, 175], Vārtt.)
an era, epoch (cf. -kāla)
a year (of any era), [Inscr.]
a partic. fragrant substance, [Gal.]