Massagetean heavy cavalry in Gaugamela?

[bachmat66]

...and as per kandys over armour , I drew this analogy from a later example where it seem that kandys was used as some sort of a rouse against the enemy - at Carrhae where the Surrena' Saka in Parthian vassalage were fighting the Crassus' Roman army there - and the Saka Parthian cavalry removed their kandys at the last moment to confuse the romans and dazzle them with their shinning armour.
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There's not much evidence for the Saka wearing the kandys though (and I'm actually not sure that kandys is quite the right term - the Katanda "kandys" was pretty much just a mantle with very thin sleeves which must have been tied around the neck, and so is quite different from the Persian and Parthian kandys) and it doesn't seem to have been anywhere nearly as common as among Iranians.

well,
kandys was the Greek word as its Iranian name is kantus, I think.
I usually would say cantus' (kantush) and as such nomadic Iranian garment it was adopted by the Turkic people and via their influence entered Slavic men costume, terminating with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 18th (XVIII) century elaborate male garment known as kontusz as described in this not very good wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontusz