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Manipuri essay Ereipak Nungshiba

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❣Manipuri literature is the literature written in the Manipuri language (i.e. Meeteilon).

❣ It is also known as Meetei Literature. The history of Manipuri literature can be traced back thousands of years with the flourishing of its civilisation.

❣But the Puya Meithaba (burning of ancient Manipuri scriptures) in 1729, during the reign of Meidingu Pamheiba (1709-1748), devastated the ancient Manipuri scriptures and cultural history.

❣It began a new era of Manipuri literature.

❣The Meeteis had a long tradition of writing.

❣It is not completely clear when the archaic Meetei Puyas (old scriptures) and Meetei Mayek (Manipuri scripts) first came into existence.

❣However, the written constitution Loiyamba Shinyen (1110), during the regime of Meidingu Loiyamba (1074-1122), vividly connotes the practice of writing in this era.

❣The Royal Chronicle, Chitharon Kumpaba, was kept meticulously and continued from the fifteenth century until the end of kingship (Meidingu Bodhchandra, 1941-1955).

❣The skill of writing was at first the prerogative of the professional scribes and scholars of the traditional Meetei culture, the Maichous.

❣But later, as proliferation of religious, proto-scientific and astrological text suggests, writing was expanded beyond these professional scribal classes.

❣However, most of the ancient Meetei puyas (scriptures) were anonymous and undated.

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