| Thangjing Hill | |
|---|---|
  Thangjing Hill  Thangjing Hill Thangjing Hill (India) | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 6,918 ft (2,109 m)[1] |
| Coordinates | 24°28′06″N 93°39′45″E / 24.4682°N 93.6624°E |
| Geography | |
| Location | Churachandpur district, Manipur |
| Country | India |
Thangjing Hill (also called Thangching Hill and Thangting Hill),[2][a] is a mountain peak in the Indian state of Manipur. It is in the Churachandpur district, to the west of Moirang.[5] The north–south-running mountain range on which it sits is also called Thangjing range or Thangjing Hills. The range forms part of the western border of the Imphal Valley.
The Thangjing Hill is believed by Manipuris to be the abode of Thangching, the ancestral deity of Moirang.[6][7] In the Meitei cosmology, the "body" of Manipur is represented with various natural features of the land, including the Thangjing hill as its right leg.[8]
The Meiteis of the Moirang region carry out an annual pilgrimage to the top of the hill.[5]
- ^ Survey of India mapsheet 83-H, 1944.
- ^ Debanish Achom, Row Over Cross And Flag Atop Manipur's "Sacred" Hill, Police Case Filed, NDTV News, 6 October 2023.
- ^ Dun, Gazetteer of Manipur (1886), p. 4.
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Bhagat Oinam; Dhiren A. Sadokpam, eds. (2018), Northeast India: A Reader, Routledge India, p. 4, ISBN 978-0-429-95320-0, ISBN 978-0-429-48987-7 – via archive.org,
Along with the generation of 'origin myth', communities have also been engaged in 'sanctification' of these spatial demarcations and converting them as representations of revered deities. For instance, the Meiteis over the ages have attached cultural and religious significance to two mountain peaks: Koubru and Thangjing. In their cosmogony, the two peaks have been depicted as prime deities indicating control over marked territory.
- ^ Parratt, The Court Chronicle, Vol. 1 (2005), p. 184.
- ^ Ray, Sohini (2009). "Writing the Body: Cosmology, Orthography, and Fragments of Modernity in Northeastern India". Anthropological Quarterly. 82 (1): 129–154. doi:10.1353/anq.0.0047. ISSN 0003-5491. JSTOR 25488260.
The cosmology of the body as manifested in the land of Manipuris described as follows in oral accounts: Lake Khongampat is the heart; Kangla (the old royal fort) is the naval center. Lake Loktak is the reproductive organ; Nungthong in Sugnu is the anus and urethra. The three important rivers, Imphal, Iril, and Nambul form the veins and arteries. The Langol hill is the right hand, and the Thangjing hill the right leg. The Nongmaijing hill is the left hand. Wangbren hill is the left leg. Mountain Koubru, where we went for the pilgrimage is imagined to be the head of this body and also a center of many sacred myths in the Meitei faith.
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