Puya Meithaba (Burning of the puya), or Lairik Meithaba, refers to the annual commemoration of a legendary 18th-century scripture burning in Manipur by a neo-convert Vaishnavite King, or to the original libricide itself. There is no historical evidence that the libricide happened.
Puya Meithaba (Burning of the puya), or Lairik Meithaba, refers to the annual commemoration of a legendary 18th-century scripture burning in Manipur by a neo-convert Vaishnavite King, or to the original libricide itself. There is no historical evidence that the libricide happened.
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