किम्पुरुष

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Puranic Encyclopaedia

KIMPURUṢA   
1) General.
A King called Agnīdhra was born in the dynasty of Priyavrata, son of Manu. He became lord of the Jambū island, and married an apsarā woman named Pūrvacitti. To them were born nine sons called Nābhi, Kimpuruṣa, Hari, Ilāvṛta, Ramyaka, Hiraṇmaya, Kalva, Bhadrāśva and Ketumāla. Agnīdhra partitioned the kingdom among the nine sons. The land Kimpuruṣa ruled over was known as Kimpuruṣa or Kimpuruṣavarṣa. It lay to the south of Hemakūṭa mountain. It was here that Hanūmān spent his last days worshipping Śrī Rāma. “The son of the wind God (Hanūmān) lives in the country called Kimpuruṣavarṣa in the worship of Śrī Rāma.” [Bhāgavata, 5th Skandha] . According to the Sabhā Parva (Chapter 23, Verses 1, 2) Kimpuruṣavarṣa guarded by the sons of Druma is situated to the north of the Himālayas facing the Dhavala mountain, and this country was once conquered by Arjuna.
2) Other information.
(i) Kimpuruṣas were the sons of Pulaha Prajāpati. [Ādi Parva, Chapter 66, Verse 8] .
(ii) They witnessed Agastya drinking up the ocean dry. [Vana Parva, Chapter 104, Verse 21] .
(iii) They guard the lotus ponds kept by Kubera to sport with his beloved ones. [Vana Parva, Chapter 15, Verse 9] .
(iv) In his conflict with Rāvaṇa, Kubera left behind him Laṅkā and his Puṣpaka Vimāna, escaped towards the north and settled down on mount Gandhamādana with the help of the Kimpuruṣas. [Vana Parva, Chapter 275, Verse 33] .
(v) Yakṣa women were their mothers. [Śānti Parva, Chapter 207, Verse 25] .
(vi) They were present at the aśvamedha of Yudhiṣṭhira. [Aśvamedha Parva, Chapter 88, Verse 37] .
(vii) Śuka Brahmarṣi reached Bhārata, crossing Kimpuruṣavarṣa. [Śānti Parva, Chapter 325] .

प्राचीन चरित्रकोश

किम्पुरुष n.  आग्नीध्र के नौ पुत्रों में दूसरा । इसकी पत्नी का नाम प्रतिरुपा । यह किंपुरुषवर्ष का अधिपति था [भा.५.२] ; आग्नीध्र देखिये ।
किम्पुरुष II. n.  स्वारोचिष मन्वन्तर का एक मनुपुत्र ।

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

किम्—पुरुष  m.  -पुरुष॑ [ [ŚBr. i]] or -पु॑रुष [ [ŚBr. vii]], m. ‘what sort of a man?’ a mongrel being (according to the ब्राह्मणs an evil being similar to man; perhaps originally a kind of monkey [ cf. [BhP. xi, 16, 29]]; in later times the word is usually identified with किं-नर, though sometimes applied to other beings in which the figure of a man and that of an animal are combined; these beings are supposed to live on हेम-कूट and are regarded as the attendants of कुबेर; with Jains the किम्पुरुषs, like the किंनरs, belong to the व्यन्तरs)

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किम् पुरुष

N. of one of the nine sons of आग्नीध्र (having the वर्ष किम्पुरुष as his hereditary portion), [VP.]
किम्पुरुष-वर्ष   a division of the earth (one of the nine खण्डs or portions into which the earth is divided, and described as the country between the हिमाचल and हेम-कूट mountains, also called , [Kād.]), [VP.]; [BhP.]; [MatsyaP.] &c.

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किम्पुरुष वर्ष