Mong Ri Mong Ram

English

Alternative forms

• Mungrimungram

Etymology

Borrowed from Ahom 𑜉𑜢𑜤𑜂𑜫 𑜍𑜣 𑜉𑜢𑜤𑜂𑜫 𑜍𑜪 (müṅ rī müṅ raṃ)

Proper noun

Mong Ri Mong Ram

1. Synonym of Xishuangbanna (An autonomous prefecture of Yunnan, China).
   • 1986, Wahengbam Ibohal Singh, The History of Manipur: An Early Period‎^[1], →OCLC, page 291‎^[2]:

     A group of Shans migrated from south China in the year 568 A.D. The Meiteis used to call this group of Tai people Pong. They belonged to the branch of Tai called Mao Shan. In the half fabulous account of Tai-Ahom it is said that two brothers Khunlung (Hkun Long) and Khunlai (Hkun Lai) descended from the heaven in the year 568 A.D. and landed in the land of Mungrimungram (Mong Ri Mong Ram). They established a kingdom there. The name Mungrimungram was derived from their dialect meaning 'country-deserted-country-unhabited'.

   • 1990, Ti 4 Chieh Tʻai Hsüeh Yen Chiu Kuo Chi Hui i Lun Wen Chi [第四屆泰学研究国际会议论文集]‎^[3], volume 3, Yün-nan sheng she hui kʻo hsüeh yüan Tung nan Ya yen chiu so, →OCLC, page 260‎^[4]:

     W. W. Cochrane asserts that Mong Ri Mong Ram was on the banks of the Mekong.²³ On the basis of these findings, Padmeswar Gogoi asserts that Mon Ri Mong Ram^{[sic – meaning Mong Ri Mong Ram]} was undoubtedly a part of the ancient Tai state of Sip Swang Pan Na (Keng Hung), or modern Xihuang Banna.²⁴ If this identification of Mong Ri Mong Ram is accepted, the tradition, which is universally recorded in all Ahom history, links the Ahoms with Yunnan.

   • 1992, J. N. Phukan, “Relations of the Ahom Kings of Assam with those of Mong Mao (in Yunnan, China) and of Mong Kwang (Moguang in Myanmar)”, in Proceedings of the Indian History Congress‎^[5], volume 52, New Delhi: Indian History Congress, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 889:

     His father Chao Chang Nyeu, a prince of Mong Ri Mong Ram, another Tai state in southern China on the Mekong, married the younger sister of Pa-Meo-Pung, the ruler of Mong Mao¹. From his father's side, Siu-Ka-Pha thus belonged to the Mong Ri Mong Ram royal family, and from his mother’s to the Mong Mao royal family.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Mong Ri Mong Ram.