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kimpuruṣa

kim—puruṣá -puruṣá [[ŚBr. i]] or -púruṣa [[ŚBr. vii]], m. ‘what sort of a man?’ a mongrel being (according to the Brāhmaṇas an evil being similar to man; perhaps originally a kind of monkey [cf. [BhP. xi, 16, 29]]; in later times the word is usually identified with kiṃ-nara, though sometimes applied to other beings in which the figure of a man and that of an animal are combined; these beings are supposed to live on Hema-kūṭa and are regarded as the attendants of Kubera; with Jains the Kimpuruṣas, like the Kiṃnaras, belong to the Vyantaras)

N. of one of the nine sons of Āgnīdhra (having the Varṣa Kimpuruṣa as his hereditary portion), [VP.]

a division of the earth (one of the nine Khaṇḍas or portions into which the earth is divided, and described as the country between the Himācala and Hema-kūṭa mountains, also called kimpuruṣa-varṣa, [Kād.]), [VP.]; [BhP.]; [MatsyaP.] &c.