A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c63.184

v4.c63.184

180 The Kirātas lived in the area of modern Sikkim and Bhutan (P. Rāy, 1956: 122), Bhutan and Assam (AVI 458), or the hill regions of Northeastern India and Nepal (N.N. Bhattacharyya, 1991). Tryambaka Kāle (bhūmikā to ed. a) advanced that the Vindhyas should be regarded as the region inhabited by the Kirātas; he based this assumption on a verse found in the Śivaśaktisaṅgamatantra (absent from CC; compare Tāntrika Sāhitya 611–612: Śaktisaṅgamatantra). See also on the Kirātas: E. Balfour (1967): II, 575–576; S.K. Chatterji (1974); B.C. Law (1984): 98–99; F.E. Pargiter (1969): I, 322–323; K. Rönnow (1936); A.M. Shastri (1996): II, 78–79; M.R. Singh (1972): 180–182; M. and J. Stutley (1977); U.P. Thapliyal (1979): 39–40.