"मणिपूर संघर्षामागचे धर्मशास्त्र - भाग ३५"

"मणिपूर संघर्षामागचे धर्मशास्त्र - भाग ३५"

वरवर "हिंदू-ख्रिश्चन धार्मिक संघर्षा" चे स्वरूप धारण केलेल्या मणिपूर संघर्षाला रोज नवनवीन आयाम प्राप्त होत आहेत.जयाने पाठवलेला "खनिज संपत्ती" चा व "आदिवासी शोषणा" चा ताजा आयाम या पूर्वी कधीही ऐकलेला नव्हता.या आयामाच्या संदर्भात मणिपूरधील विविध आदिवासींचा अभ्यास केला.ऐका.

1.According to the folklore of the Hao (Naga) communities, ancestors of the Nagas migrated from China in search of a safer place for settlement.

2.In those days war was common among the tribes; the strong exploited the weak who were confined in a big area surrounded by a concrete wall resembling a big cave (Lunglo, 2019).

3.Nagas emerged from a cave in the subterranean world. Ningreishim K. Shimray stated that most of the Naga tribes believe that they come from a “Khur” or “Khol” or hole in the earth.

4.The ancestors came out from the cave one by one, but a large tiger that was watching them devoured each of them as soon as they emerged from the cave.

5.Different Naga tribes have different interpretations as to how their ancestors finally prevailed over the tiger, but it would appear that it was finally killed by an arrow. 6.The people then emerged from the “earth hole” and spread over the open space around a hill.

7.A “tiger-head” (Banee, The Mao Naga, 1995, p. 419) engraved on the stone monolith erected at Makhel (a place considered to be a point of dispersal for different Naga tribes) is indicative of the fact that the tiger has significance in the early history of the Nagas (Shimray, 2015).

8.According to Shupfomei myths and legends (a group of Nagas from Mao in Manipur), they had their origin at Makhel-Makhrufu.

9.The concept of “cave dwelling” should not and cannot be taken literally. At one point of time, Shupfomei in particular and the

Nagas in general, did make their exodus from some place to their present homeland.