Tribes in Ancient India c58.4

c58.4

Long assures us¹ that there is still a tradition in Tripurā, precisely where Ptolemy places his Kirrhadia, that the first name of the country was Kirāt. The Kirātas had an influential settlement in Nepal, and a Kirāta dynasty of kings held the valley in sway in succession to the Ābhīras. Sylvain Levi has pointed out that the Nepalese usage still gives the name Kirāta to the country between the Dudh-kosi and the Arun, and that there is evidence that the Kirātas once occupied a much more extensive area in Nepal.¹