mongoloids were known as kirat due to complexion
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The Kirāta (Kirat) (Sanskrit: किरात) is a generic term in Sanskrit literature for people who had territory in the mountains, particularly in the Himalayas and Northeast India and who are believed to have been Sino-Tibetan in origin.[1][2][better source needed] The Kiratas of middle Himalayas are Limbu, Tani people, Rai, Yakkha, Magar, Sunuwar, Dhimal and Lepcha tribes of Eastern Nepal, Sikkim and Darjeeling of India, and a major segment of Kathmandu Valley's indigenous Newars.[3][4][5][6][7] The meaning of 'Kirat' as is sometime referred as 'degraded, mountainous tribe' while other scholars attribute more respectable meanings to this term and say that it denotes people with the lion's character, or mountain dwellers....
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