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The epic mapped onto the north-east
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Every state in the north-east claims an epic link.
One blog maps Bhagadatta onto Pragjyotishpur, Usha and Aniruddha onto Tezpur, Rukmini onto Arunachal, Pramila onto Meghalaya, Chitrangada onto Manipur, Ulupi and Hidimba onto Nagaland, and Trilochana onto Tripura.
Who: Bhagadatta, Rukmini, Pramila, Ulupi, Hidimbi
Bound to
Is Manipur the Manipura of the epic? same-story-other-version
Places: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland, Tripura
Where this comes from
- modern-popular · Fried Eye: Mythology and North East India