Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- তেংবাং মপুগী মচানুপা
- Transliteration
- Tengban Mapugi machanupa
- Rejected alternatives
- অবতার (avatar, an incarnate deity-descent as understood in Manipuri Vaishnavism, e.g. Krishna, an explicit downgrade and rejected)
Son Of God
CRITICAL: full phrase required, built on তেংবাং মপু (see ‘god’ entry). Given how thoroughly Manipuri Vaishnavism has integrated avatar theology (Krishna’s descents, celebrated through Ras Lila) into elite and popular Meitei religious life since the 18th century, this doctrine must be taught as unique, eternal Sonship within the Godhead, not one more avatar in a divine sequence.