kirāta | किरात | kirAta

ki/rāta | कि/रात | m. pl. N. of a degraded mountain-tribe (inhabiting woods and mountains and living by hunting, having become Śūdras by their neglect of all prescribed religious rites; also regarded as Mlecchas; the Kirrhadae of Arrian), VS. xxx, 16; TāṇḍyaBr.; Mn. x, 44; MBh. &c.
ki/rāta | कि/रात | m. a man of the Kirāta tribe
a prince of the Kirātas, VarBṛS. xi, 60
a dwarf, L. (cf. kubja-k˚ | कुब्ज-क्˚ |)
a groom, horseman, L.
the plant Agathotes Chirayta (also called kirāta-tikta | किरात-तिक्त |), L.
N. of Śiva (as a mountaineer opposed to Arjuna, described in Bhāravi's poem Kirātārjunīya)

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