Various organizations in Assam belonging to Ahom community have planned colorful programmes to mark the Siu-Ka-Pha Divas or Asom Divas today.

Sukapha Divas is observed to commemorate Chaolung Sukapha, the founder of the Ahom kingdom who reigned from 1228 to 1268 AD.

“We have organized a two-day programme on Siu-Ka-Pha Divas in Sonari. We organized a seminar on the role of ethnic organizations in protection of Assamese nationality on Friday to commemorate the great social reformer Siu-Ka-Pha,” Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) leader Putul Dutta told reporters.

The Tai Ahom Yuba Parishad has organized a day-long programme at Moran.

The State Cultural Affairs department in collaboration with Dibrugarh district administration has celebrated the day centrally at Tipam in Naharkatia. The government will present the Siu-Ka-Pha award to scholar Bimal Borpatra Gohain at the programme in Tipam.

Siu-Ka-Pha: A glimpse

# Chaolung Sukaphaa (1228 –?1268), also Siu-Ka-Pha, is the first Ahom King in medieval Assam.

# Sukapha set up the 600-year-old Ahom kingdom in Upper Assam.

# According to Ahom tradition, Sukaphaa was a descendant of the god Khunlung, who had come down from the heavens and had ruled Mong-Ri-Mong-Ram.

# Sukaphaa was born to Chao Chang-Nyeu and Nang-Mong Blak-Kham-Sen in the Tai  state of Mong Mao, close to present-day Ruili in Yunnan, China.

# Sukaphaa is said to have left Chieng-Sen the capital of Mong Mao in the year 1215 AD.

# When he came to Assam, he was accompanied by three queens, two sons and a daughter.

# Sukaphaa followed an older known route from Yunnan to Assam that passed through Myitkyim, Mogaung and the upper Irrawaddy  river valley.

# On his way to Assam, he stopped at various places and crossed the Khamjang river to reach the Nagyang lake in 1227.

# He subjugated the Nagas very ferociously and established a Mong on the bank of Khamjang river.

# He proceeded to cross the Patkai  hills at the Pangsau pass and reached Namrup in December 1228.