Wangbren

Wangbren (Wangpulen / Wangpurel) is the Meitei god of water, rain, flood, disease and sickness — lord of the rivers and ruler of the under-water world — and one of the four cardinal Umang Lai of Sanamahism, the guardian of the south-eastern direction (the Maikei Ngakpa Lai). With Koubru, Thangjing and Marjing he completes the four-fold guardianship of the cardinal directions invoked in Meitei ritual to protect the land from disaster.

Domains

• south eastern direction
• water and rain

Powers

• Rule the rivers and the under-water world
• Send and withhold disease and sickness

Epithets

• Wangpurel

Relations

• companion: Koubru
• companion: Thangjing
• companion: Marjing

Sources

• S. N. Arambam Parratt, The Religion of Manipur (1980)
• Meitei tradition (Sanamahism): the Maikei Ngakpa Lai