Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- মীওইগী মহৈ লৌবা
- Transliteration
- miwoigi mahai louba
- Rejected alternatives
- অবতার (never use; Manipuri Vaishnavism's Krishna-avatar devotion, expressed through the Ras Lila tradition, makes this the single highest-salience wrong word for Meitei readers)
Incarnation
CRITICAL: NEVER use অবতার. Because Manipuri Vaishnavism’s devotion to Krishna as an avatar of Vishnu is expressed through the historically royal-patronized, now UNESCO-recognized Ras Lila dance tradition, avatar theology is a matter of prestigious, actively performed cultural-religious identity for Meitei Hindus, not a distant abstraction. মীওইগী মহৈ লৌবা (‘taking on human form/nature’) must be taught as the eternal Son’s permanent, unique assumption of human nature, once, not a recurring divine descent enacted in devotional dance.