Arjuna in Manipur: Amit Shah courts controversy with remarks on Mahabharata connection to State
The HinduPublished : Jan 25, 2023 16:43 IST Is the Manipur mentioned in the Mahabharata epic the present-day border hilly State? The replies Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister N. Biren Singh may elect to give, if at all, to these questions are eagerly awaited, because the royal chronicles of Manipur spanning over 2,500 years do not record anything in this regard. Amit Shah had courted controvery when he declared during a function in Imphal on January 7 that Arjuna had come to Manipur and married the “Manipuri princess Chitrangada”. R.K. Nimai, retired bureaucrat and writer, said: “This is not the first time that some persons have been saying these confusing things.” Keisham Meghachandra, Congress MLA and Pradesh Congress Committee president, said: “Both Shah and Biren had distorted Manipur’s history and this is simply unacceptable.” Some years ago, angry students’ bodies banned a book titled A Short History of Manipur” written by the late R.K. Jhalajit that carried references to Arjuna’s reported arrival in Manipur. The Manipuri translation inserted some words to “bring Arjuna” towards today’s Manipur.
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