Adhyaya 57 — The Ninefold Divisions of Bharata: Mountains, Rivers, and Peoples
लम्पाकाः शूलकाराश्च चूलिका जागुडैः सह । औषधाश्चानिमद्राश्च किरातानां च जातयः ॥
lampākāḥ śūlakārāśca cūlikā jāguḍaiḥ saha / auṣadhāścānimadrāśca kirātānāñca jātayaḥ
Genannt werden die Lampākas, die Śūlakāras und die Cūlikas zusammen mit den Jāguḍas; die Auṣadhas und die Animadras; sowie die mannigfaltigen Stämme der Kirātas.
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The verse underscores the purāṇic impulse to include forest and mountain communities within the broader civilizational inventory, even if they are depicted as distinct from the agrarian heartland.
Ancillary world-description (bhū-varṇana) supporting historical/dynastic narration rather than a direct doctrinal section.
Kirātas and similar groups can symbolize the untamed powers of nature; their ‘listing’ is a textual act of ordering wilderness within cosmic structure.