[2][3] Ura Naha Khongjomba (Old Manipuri: Khongchompa; regnal name: Iwang Puriklai Khongjomba) (1210–1263) was the biological son of King Laijing Ningthou Punsiba (1138–1210)[4] of Moirang and Lady Tonu Laijinglembi, but he was born in the house of his foster father, Kadeng Thangjahanba, the second husband of Tonu Laijinglembi.

Unable to produce any further sons and lacking an heir, he consults his courtiers court and chooses a young man named Nidrām, on the strength of his princely moral standards, to be his successor.

[5][6][8] After Kadeng Thangjahanba dies in the prime time of his life, his wife Tonu Laijinglembi is afraid that her son Khongjomba will come to harm if his true parentage is revealed.

She flees with her young son into the hills, seeking asylum in the house of her husband's friend, the chief of Leihou tribe.

During that time, as planned by God Thangching, the people of Moirang forget about Tonu and Khongjomba, and thus refuse to help them upon their return to the town.