Manikya Dynasty

The Kings the Twipra (Tripura) kingdom assumed the title of Manikya. The dynasty was of Indo-Mongolian^{[citation needed]} origin and was founded when Ratna Fa (Ratna Manikya) assumed the title in 1280.

One of the more famous Manikya rulers was Bir Chandra Manikya Bahadur, in the 19th century.^[1] Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya (r. 1923 – 1947) died in 1947, and his infant son Kirit Bikram Kishore Manikya was designated the 185th king even though he was too young to rule for the transitional period until 15 September 1949, when Tripuri acceded to the Union of India. Kirit Bikram Kishore Manikya died in 2006, and his son Pradyot Bikram Kishore Manikya (b. 1978) would be the pretender as 186th king, sometimes so considered in Tripuri irredentism.

List of kings [edit]

The first king of the Manikya Dynasty is the 145th king in the reckoning of the Rajmala, the Chronicle of the Kings, written in the 14th century. The earlier kings are partly mythological and partly legendary or semi-legendary.^[2]

145. Ratna Fa (Ratna Manikya) fl. 1280

146. Pratap Manikya

147. Mukut Manikya (Mukunda)

148. Maha Manikya

149. Dharma Manikya fl. 1430

150. Pratap Manikya II

151. Dhanya Manikya

152. Dhwaj Manikya

153. Deb Manikya

154. Indra Manikya

155. Vijay Manikya I (1532-1563)

156. Ananta Manikya

157. Udai Manikya

158. Jai Manikya (Loktor Fa)

159. Amar Manikya (1577-1586)

160. Rajdhar Manikya

161. Jashodhar Manikya

162. Kalyan Manikya

163. Gobinda Manikya (fl. 1660s)

164. Chhatra Manikya (Nakhshatra Rai) (fl. 1660s/1670s)

165. Ramdev Manikya

166. Ratna Manikya II

167. Narendra Manikya

168. Mahendra Manikya

169. Dharma Manikya II (1714-1733)

170. Mukunda Manikya

171. Jai Manikya

172. Indra Manikya II

173. Vijay Manikya II

174. Krishna Manikya

175. Rajdhar Manikya

176. Ramgana Manikya

177. Durga Manikya

178. Kashi Chandra Manikya

179. Krishna Kishore Manikya

180. Ishan Chandra Manikya

181. Bir Chandra Manikya

182. Radha Kishore Manikya

183. Birendra Kishore Manikya

184. Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya (1923 – 1947)

185. Kirit Bikram Kishore Manikya (1947-1949)

(186.) Pradyot Bikram Kishore Manikya

See also [edit]

• List of Tripuri Kings

References [edit]

1. ^ North East India History at north-east-india.com
2. ^ Hill Tippera - History The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1909, v. 13, p. 118.

External links [edit]

• Genealogy of Tripura Kingdom at Queensland University web site