kúru 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-dvīpas 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 Varṣas of the same; it was probably a country beyond the most northern range of the Himālaya, often described as a country of everlasting happiness [[AitBr.]; [MBh.] &c.], and considered by some to be the ancient home of the Āryan race)
= ṛtvijas (priests), [Naigh.]
= kartāras (‘doers’, fr. √ 1. kṛ) Comm. on [ChUp.]
N. of the ancestor of the Kurus (son of Saṃvaraṇa and Tapatī, daughter of the sun [[MBh. i, 3738 ff.]; [Hariv. 1799] &c.]; Kuru is the ancestor of both Pāṇḍu and Dhṛtarāṣṭra, though the patronymic derived from his name is usually applied only to the sons of the latter, the sons and descendants of the former being called Pāṇḍavas)
N. of a son of Āgnīdhra and grandson of Priya-vrata, [VP.]; [BhP.]
boiled rice, [L.]
the plant Solanum Jacquini (= kaṇṭakārikā), [L.]
kúru (ūs), f. a princess of the Kuru race, [Pāṇ. iv, 1, 66] & [176] (cf. kaurava, &c.)