Kahiri from the name of a ‘torrent,’

The name of the Kahiris, who are in the present day a Levitical tribe with certain

peculiar attributes, is probably derived from one of the Kahiri torrents. The
legend given in the Tarikh-i-M’asumi (1600 A.D.)

2 derives the name direct from

the Kahir-tree, asserting that one of the ancestors of the tribe rode on a tree of this
sort, making it move like a horse when he struck it with a whip.