किरात

{ kirātḥ, kirāta }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

KIRĀTA   An urban region in ancient India. [Bhīṣma Parva, Chapter 2, Verse 51] .

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

See : चिरायता

A dictionary, Marathi and English

One of the barbarous tribes who inhabit woods and mountains, and live by the chase. 2 A kind of Gentian. See किराईत.

Aryabhushan School Dictionary

 m  One of the barbarous tribes who inhabit woods and mountains, and live by the chase.

महाराष्ट्र शब्दकोश

 पु. १ अरण्यवासी एक जात ; भिल्ल ; ही जात शिकारीवर निर्वाह करते .' तो भेटला गुहक नामक किरात वाटें । ' - वामन भरतभाव ५० . २ किराईताची एक जात .

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

किरात  m.  m. pl. N. of a degraded mountain-tribe (inhabiting woods and mountains and living by hunting, having become शूद्रs by their neglect of all prescribed religious rites; also regarded as म्लेच्छs; the Kirrhadae of Arrian), [VS. xxx, 16]; [TāṇḍyaBr.]; [Mn. x, 44]; [MBh.] &c.
किरात  m.  m. a man of the किरात tribe
a prince of the किरातs, [VarBṛS. xi, 60]
कुब्ज-क्°   a dwarf, [L.] ( cf.)

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कुब्ज क्°

a groom, horseman, [L.]
किरात-तिक्त   the plant Agathotes Chirayta (also called ), [L.]

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किरात तिक्त

N. of शिव (as a mountaineer opposed to अर्जुन, described in भारवि's poem किरातार्जुनीय)

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

किरातः [kirātḥ]   [किरं पर्यन्तभूमिं अतति गच्छतीति किरातः]
 N. N. of a degraded mountain tribe who live by hunting, a mountaineer; वैयाकरणकिरातादपशब्दमृगाः क्व यान्तु संत्रस्ताः । यदि नटगणकचिकित्सकवैतालिकवदनकन्दरा न स्युः ॥ Subhāṣ.; [Pt.1.17;] पर्यन्ताश्रयिभिर्निजस्य सदृशं नाम्नः किरातैः कृतम् [Ratn.2.3;] [Ku.1.6,15.] जवार इति यद्राज्यं किरातानां पुरातनम् [Parṇāl 1.39.]
A savage, barbarian.
A dwarf.
A groom, a horseman.
 N. N. of Śiva in the disguise of a Kirāta.
A species of fish; किरातो लुब्धके देववाहिनीमत्स्यभेदयोः [Nm.]
 N. N. of a medicinal herb (Mar. किराईत, चिराईत, भूनिंब)
-ताः   (pl.) N. of a country. -Comp.
-अर्जुनीयम्  N. N. of a poem by Bhāravi (in which the combat of Arjuna with Śiva in the form of a Kirāta or mountaineer is poetically described.)-आशिन् m. an epithet of Garuḍa.
-तिक्तः  N. N. of a medicinal herb (Mar. किराईत, चिराईत).

Shabda-Sagara

किरात  m.  ( -तः)
1. A savage, one of the barbarous tribes who inhabit woods and mountains and live by the chase, the Kirrhadœ of Arrian.
2. SIVA as a mountaineer opposed to ARJUNA, the account of which is the subject of the poem, the Kiratarjuniya.
3. A kind of gentian: see किराततिक्त.
4. A pigmy a dwarf.
5. A groom, a horseman.
 f.  ( -ती)
1. The river GANGES or its goddess.
2. A name of DURGA.
3. A bawd, a procuress.
4. The celestial GANGES or river of Swarga.
E. कॄ to scatter, (speech, &c.) and अत who goes; also किरातक.

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कॄ अत किरातक