كرو

कुरु kuru, and H. कुरू kurū, s.m. Name of an ancient sovereign of Dehli and the surrounding country; name of the territory governed by him; and of the people of that country; name of the most northerly of the four Mahādvīps or principal divisions of the known world (called also uttar kuru; by other systems, it is considered one of the nine varshasor divisions of the known world; in each case, however, it is the country beyond the northernmost range of mountains extending to the frozen ocean):—kuru-bans, s.m.=kuru-vaṅś, q.v.:—kuru-kshetra, vulg. kuru-ćhetr, s.m. 'The field of the Kurus,' name of a region or extensive plain near Dehli, the scene of the great battles between the Kauravas and the Pāṇḍavas;—the inhabitants of that country:—kuru-vaṅś, vulg. kuru-baṅs, s.m. The race of Kuru:—kuru-vaṅśī, vulg. kuru-baṅsī, adj. & s.m. (f. -inī), Belonging to the race of Kuru; a man of that race.