Selenghat, March 28 (MExN): In an attempt to foster peace and tranquility between the people of Assam and Nagaland, a goodwill conclave was held today at Selenghat in Jorhat District in memory of late Sati Joymoti, the wife of Ahom King Godadhor Hingha. A press note from the BPCC (A-N) informed that the event was organized by a conglomeration of twenty villagers bordering in the foothills.
The Border Peace Coordination Committee (Assam-Nagaland) delegation was led by Vice President Imsu Jamir, with the hope to initiate effective coordination amongst the people. Imsu Jamir exhorted the gathering to imbibe the good relations that has historically existed between the people for more than four centuries. “The Nagas, even today, remembers the fond memoirs that existed with the Godadhar king and his subjects. When the king was in exile in the then Naga Hills, the Naga people extended all needed logistics to the King and his followers in order to regain his Kingdom,” he stated. He appealed for all citizens on either side to uphold the age old good relations and vow for peace and tranquility for all round development in the border region.
The note narrated that during the 1680s, in the Ahom kingdom, Sati Joymoti persuaded her husband Godadhar Hingha (the eligible king) to go on exile. He took shelter in the Naga Hills. In order to find his whereabouts, the kingdom’s army arrested Godadhar’s wife Sati Joymoti and tortured her in the infamous “Jerenga Pathar” near Rongpur (Sivasagar). On knowing his beloved wife’s fate, Godadhar came to see her in disguise, with his Naga companions, but Sati Joymoti on recognizing him, pleaded for him to run away. She died there after eighteen days of torture.
Godadhar Hingha lived with the Nagas in different ranges of the Naga Hills for nearly two and a half years. Later, he became King and married a Naga woman from Tanghai village (Mon district), who eventually became her queen. Godadhar Hingha had emphasized for good relations between the Ahoms and Nagas.
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