78 CE is Year Zero in these people’s namesake calendar, which is used on the Filipino Laguna copperplate inscription and is now the Indian national calendar. Per a lost play, a king of these people was killed by a prince who entered their camp disguised as Queen Dhruvadevi. The name of Gautama Buddha’s clan only differs from these non-Greek people’s Sanskrit name by a “y” sound, inspiring Christopher Beckwith’s theory that the Buddha was one of them. These people’s Western Satraps ruled Northwest India until their king Rudrasimha was defeated by the Gupta emperor Chandragupta II. Centuries before these people’s Eastern branch (10[1])was pushed south into India by the Yuèzhī (“y'wey-zhuh”), members of their Western branch evaded an expedition led by Darius I and buried ornate “animal-style” jewelry in kurgans. For 10 points, name this nomadic Iranian ethnic group of the Eurasian steppes. ■END■