"...as early as 33 AD narrated in the text Poireiton Khunthok, where a tribe from Khamnung Sawa headed by its chief, Poireiton, migrated and settled in the north-western part of the Imphal valley."
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Economic and Political Weekly. India: Sameeksha Trust, 2003. p. 2035
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