Tauhuireng Ahanpa
Tauhuireng Ahanpa is the elder sun in ancient Meitei cosmology and brother of Numitsana Khomadon. He was wounded by an arrow shot by their human servant Khwai Nongchengpam Piba and hid in agony to Khunbirok. His wounding and hiding, along with his brother's subsequent hiding, caused complete darkness to fall upon the world.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 0 CE
- Attested period
- 0 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Mentioned in the 1st century CE classical Meitei literary work Numit Kappa.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Chakpa Lamlang Amaipi, Korou Nongmai Hanpi
- sibling of
- Numitsana Khomadon, Sana Khommaton Numit Kaite Ngampa
- served by
- Khwai Nongchengpam Piba
- child of
- Korou Nongmai Hanpi
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“and finally his elder brother, Tauhuireng Ahanpa, lying wounded, and his horse was fatally injured.”
#15536 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Tauhuireng Ahanpa functions as more than a mythological character. He symbolizes overpowering authority or a natural imbalance (two suns instead of one), as well as the burden of excess, which creates hardship for humans and imbalance in nature. His character also symbolises leadership without pause”
#15567 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Her fourth and fifth sons were the two suns, Tauhuireng Ahanpa, who was wounded by a slave named Khwai Nongcheng Piba and thus, remained hidden, and Numitsana Khomadon, the youngest and the narrator of the tragedy to the priestess.”
#15821 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001