कुरु

Monier-Williams · kuru
kúru avas m. pl., N. of a people of India and of their country (situated near the country of the Pañcālas ‖ hence often connected with Pañcāla or Pañcāla [see kuru-pañc below]: the uttara-kuravaḥ, or uttarāḥ kuravaḥ are the northern Kurus, the most northerly of the four Mahā-dviipas or principal divisions of the known world [distinguished from the dakṣiṇāḥ kuravaḥ or southern Kurus MBh. i, 4346], by other systems regarded as one of the nine divisions or Varshas of the same ‖ it was probably a country beyond the most northern range of the Himâlaya, often described as a country of ev