The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s9.114

c5.s9.114

Kirāta-Deśa—Tipārā. The temple of Tripureśvarī at Udaipur in Hill Tipārā is one of the Pīṭhas (Mbh., Bhīshma, ch. 9; Brahma P., ch. 27; Viṣhṇu P., pt. 2, ch. 3). It was the Kirrhadia of Ptolemy, and included Sylhet and Assam (see Rājamālā or Chronicles of Tripura in JASB., XIX, 1850, p. 536, which contains the history of the Tipārā Rāj). The title of Mānikya was conferred upon the Rājā named Ratnāfah by the king of Gaud, shortly after 1297 A.D., which title they have retained ever since. The Kirāts also lived in the Morung, west of Sikkim (Schoff, Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, p. 213). They lived in the region from Nepal to the extreme east (JRAS., 1908, p. 326).