Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c7.s1.177

c7.s1.177

³ Vy, Bmd, Mts—किरातांश्च पुलिंदांश्च. Al-Bīrūnī explains the Pulindas as hunters of the plains or robbers. For the Kirātas, see above, p. 22, note 1. The Pulindas were an aboriginal people inhabiting the Vindhyan region; but the name was later applied to Vindhyan mountaineers in general and still later to any aboriginal people. The meaning of Kirāta, originally a Himalayan tribe, was also similarly modified. Cf. p. 30, n. 5.