Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- অচুম্বা চৎনবিরাক
- Transliteration
- achumba chatnabirak
- Rejected alternatives
- ধর্ম (avoid the broad Hindu-derived sense of cosmic/religious duty absorbed into Meitei religious vocabulary through Vaishnavization)
Righteousness
CRITICAL: right standing before God received through faith, not ধর্ম-style religious duty. This distinction needs explicit teaching, since ধর্ম entered Meitei religious vocabulary specifically through the 18th-century Vaishnavization process and is not an ancient indigenous category.