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शक 1. See सु-श॑क.
शक n. 2.n. excrement, ordure, dung (cf. शकन्, i, शकृत्), [AV.]
कश water (v.l. for ), [Naigh. i, 12]
शक m. m. a kind of animal, [Pañcar.] (v.l. शल)
शुक w.r. for , [MBh. xiii, 2835]
शक m. 3.m. pl. N. of a partic. white-skinned tribe or race of people (in the legends which relate the contests between वसिष्ठ and विश्वामित्र the शकs are fabled to have been produced by the Cow of वसिष्ठ, from her sweat, for the destruction of विश्वामित्र's army; in [Mn. x, 44] , they are mentioned together with the पौण्ड्रकs, ओड्रs, द्रविडs, काम्बोजs, जवनs or यवनs, पारदs, पह्लवs, चीनs, किरातs, दरदs, and खशs, described by, [Kull.] as degraded tribes of क्षत्रियs called after the districts in which they reside: according to the [VP. iv, 3] , king सगर attempted to rid his kingdom of these tribes, but did not succeed in destroying them all : they are sometimes regarded as the followers of शक or शालि-वाहन, and are probably to be identified with the Tartars or Indo-Scythians [Lat. Sacae] who overran India before the Āryans, and were conquered by the great विक्रमादित्य [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.
कम्बोजादि a king of the शकs g. (on, [Pāṇ. 4-1, 175] , Vārtt. )
-काल an era, epoch (cf. )
a year (of any era), [Inscr.]
a partic. fragrant substance, [Gal.]
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