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The Tai-Phake people living in north-eastern parts of India initially migrated from present Yunnan province of China in 12th century. In Yunnan province there was a kingdom known as Moung-Mao. It was the kingdom of Tais. The kingdom of Moung-Mao had four princes: Chow Seukapha was the eldest, Chow Seukhanpha was the second, Chow Seupatpha the third and Chow Seuchatpha the youngest.

Contents [hide] 1 Journey To Establish Own Kingdom 2 Journey Of Tai-Phakes With Chow Seukhanpha 3 Annexation of Hukawng Valley By Burmese King 4 Tai-Phakes Abandon Hukawng Valley And Migrate To India 5 References 6 External links

[edit]Journey To Establish Own Kingdom

The four princes in order to expand their kingdom and for the added well-being of the people and with a strong desire for a dream kingdom of their own, resolved to set out on a journey taking along with them a group of nobles, general army of soldiers and a large group of people. With the same purpose in mind, the eldest prince Chow Seukapha proceeded westwards, the second prince Chow Seukhanpha towards the east and Chow Seuchatpha towards the north from Yunnan along with them their chosen group of people. Thus the three princes consulting their almanacs embarked on a grand journey in three different directions. The youngest prince Chow Seuchatpha however assumed leadership and established his reign in the splendour filled and historically rich kingdom of Yunnan itself.

Chow Seukapha traversed the Patkai Hills and came down to Moung-Noon-Chun-Kham or the magnificent kingdom of Assam in 1228 AD for the welfare of his people, proliferation of his race, propagation of his supremacy and established the great Tai-Ahom kingdom in Assam.

[edit]Journey Of Tai-Phakes With Chow Seukhanpha

The Tai-Phakes joined as contingent to the group who with a lot of zeal and excitement wished to establish a large kingdom under the leadership of the second prince Chow Seukhanpha. Seukanpha had moved ahead with his soldiers and people in the northern direction from Yunnan and established his kingdom called in the place called Moung-Kwang (Mogawng) situated in present day Burma (Myanmar). The king ordered the Phakes who came along with the group to settle on their own and start their livelihood in a place called Hukawng valley in 1215 AD in consensus to the king’s order.

Three rivers in those days flowed through the heart of Hukawng valley. These three rivers were:- Khe-Nan-Turung, Khe-Nan-Taram and Khe-Nan-Chalip. These three rivers flowed and united into a single body of water near a stone wall of huge magnitude forming a gorge to a river since antiquity against which the waves of the three rivers violently bespattered. The Tai people inhabiting within the vicinity called this wall of old mountain as Pha-Ke. “Pha” means a great stone and “Ke” means old. Thus Pha-Ke means the wall of an old hill or in other words the Tai people inhabiting near the side of the old mountain.