"Numit Kappa is a legend and an allegory. The story mentions that there were two brothers; the younger was the sun and the elder a star. The sun shone in the day and the star in the night blazing brilliantly as the sun. Consequently there was no darkness of the night in the kingdom. The younger brother was the Chief of the Kangleis, one of the seven principalities of Manipur, and his brother the star assisted him as a nobleman. The people under them had to work hard all the day and they were deprived of any respite. Khwai Nongchengpam Piba shot down the star. This frightened the sun and he fled from Kangla abdicating the throne. But peace was brought about after a settlement was made between the Chief and the subjects."
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L. Damodar Singh, Medieval Indian Literature: Surveys and selections. India: Sahitya Akademi, 1997. p. 325, 326
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