laininghan naoriya phulo (born 28 august 1888) was a meitei religious, social and political leader and the founder of the antique meitei religion revivalist school of apokpa marup. according to meitei doctrines, he was regarded as a prophet who was born to preserve and revive the suppressed ancient paganism of the meitei ethnicity. he is seen as an example for all meiteis to follow. he invented the modern meitei script and meitei numerals as a gift from the old script which he discovered from the shakok salai thiren, an ancient manuscript, based on the cosmic evolution of the meitei mythology.