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| birth_place = Madurigaon, [[Sivasagar district|Sivasagar]], Assam<br />
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'''Joymoti Konwari''', was the wife of [[Ahom Dynasty|Tai-Ahom]] Prince Gadapani (later [[Gadadhar Singha|Supatphaa]]). She was accorded the honorific Mohiyokhi on account of her heroic endurance of torture until the end, dying at the hands of royalists under [[Sulikphaa]] ''Loraa Roja'' without disclosing her exiled husband Prince Gadapani's whereabouts, thereby enabling her husband to rise in revolt and assume kingship. Gadapani and Joymoti's son [[Rudra Singha]] had the Joysagar Tank dug at the spot where she was tortured. The first [[Assamese cinema|Assamese film]] ''[[Joymoti (1935 film)|Joymoti]]'', directed in 1935 by [[Jyoti Prasad Agarwala]], was based on her life.<ref name="assaminfo">{{cite web |url=http://www.assaminfo.com/famous-people/51/sati-jaymati.htm |title=Jaymati |publisher=Assaminfo.com |accessdate=7 January 2019}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Joymoti was born in the middle of the 17th-century in Maduri to Laithepena [[Borgohain]] and Chandradaru. She was married to Langi Gadapani Konwar,<ref>{{harvcol|Gogoi|2011|p=1512}}</ref> later an Ahom king, [[Supatphaa]], who established the [[Tungkhungia_Ahom_kings|Tungkhunia]] line of kings. During the Purge of the Princes from 1679 to 1681 under King [[Sulikphaa]] (Loraa Roja), instigated by [[Laluksola Borphukan]], Gadapani took flight. Over the next few years, he sought shelter in the Naga hills.<ref name="portal">{{cite web | url=http://online.assam.gov.in/web/guest/historyofassam?webContentId=109376 | title=History of Assam: The Medieval Period | publisher=Govt. of Assam | accessdate=18 April 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111223181225/http://online.assam.gov.in/web/guest/historyofassam?webContentId=109376 | archive-date=23 December 2011 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref><br />
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Failing to trace Prince Gadapani, Sulikphaa's soldiers brought his wife Joymoti to Jerenga Pathar where, despite torture, the princess refused to reveal the whereabouts of her husband. After continuous physical torture over 14 days, Joymoti died on 13 Choit of 1601 Saka, or 27 March 1680.<ref>{{cite web|author=TI Trade |url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=mar2708\edit3 |title=The Assam Tribune Online |publisher=Assamtribune.com |date=27 March 2008 |accessdate=7 April 2013}}</ref>{{deadlink|date=January 2019}}<br />
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==Memorials & monuments==<br />
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===Joysagar Tank===<br />
Joymoti and Gadadhar Singha's eldest son [[Rudra Singha]] ([[Sukhrungphaa]], 1696–1714) succeeded his father. In honour of the memory of his mother Joymoti, [[Rudra Singha]] built the Joysagar Tank in 1697 at [[Rangpur (Ahom capital)|Sibsagar]]. It is believed to be the biggest man-made lake in India,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.onlinesivasagar.com/page_tourism_places_joydol.htm |title=Joydol Joysagar Tank |publisher=OnlineSivasagar.com |accessdate=7 April 2013}}</ref> comprising an area covering {{convert|318|acre|km2}} of land, including its four banks,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.assamchronicle.com/node/7 |title=Sukhaangpha (1923) to Rudra Singha (1714) |publisher=The Assam Chronicle |date=28 February 2011 |accessdate=7 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.is/20130628112128/http://www.assamchronicle.com/node/7 |archive-date=28 June 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> out of which {{convert|155|acre|km2}} is filled with fresh water. A 2&nbsp;km-long earthen water pipeline once ran from the tank to the Rangpur Palace (Kareng Ghar), supplying water to the royal palace.<br />
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===Fakuwa Dol===<br />
Rudra Singha also built the Fakuwa Dol in 1703–04, a pyramid-shaped temple constructed before the Rangnath (Shiva) Temple on the banks of the Joysagar Tank. It is said that Rudra Singha, once again to perpetuate the memory of his mother Soti Joymoti, constructed the temple and placed a golden idol of her within it. It was actually a moidam (grave) of Joymoti. The circumference of the Dol was about {{convert|90|ft|m|abbr=on}}, and its height from base to top was {{convert|30|ft|m|abbr=on}}. There were eight brick pillars around the temple. The temple and the pillars are among some of the Ahom ruins that remain in Assam to this day.<br />
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===Joymoti Day===<br />
Sati Joymoti Divas, commemoration day of Joymoti, is held annually in Assam on 27 March.<ref name="assaminfo"/><br />
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===Sati Joymoti Award===<br />
The State Government of Assam has instituted an annual award in the name of Joymoti, presented to women in recognition of excellence in their chosen fields of work.<ref name="north">{{cite web | url=http://www.northeasttoday.in/our-states/assam/assam-govt-to-introduce-award-after-ahom-princess-joymoti/ | title=Assam Govt. to Introduce Award after Ahom Princess Joymoti | publisher=Northeast today | date=1 February 2012 | accessdate=19 April 2012 }}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><br />
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==Film and theatre==<br />
{{Main article|Joymoti (1935 film)|Joymoti (2006 film)}} <br />
[[File:Joymoti film screenshot.jpg|thumb|right|Screenshot from ''Joymoti'' (actress [[Aideu Handique]] as Joymoti)]]<br />
''Joymoti'' (1935 film) was the first [[Cinema of Assam|Assamese language film]], directed and produced by [[Jyoti Prasad Agarwala]]. In 2006, [[Manju Borah]] released another film by the same name. The 19th-century Assamese writer [[Lakshminath Bezbaruah]] depicted her life in the drama ''Joymoti Kuwori''.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Joymoti (1935 film)|''Joymoti'']], first Assamese film produced by Jyoti Prasad Agarwala.<br />
* [[Ahom Dynasty]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
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* {{Cite conference| last1 = Gogoi| first1=Debo Prasad| last2=Bora | first2=Prasanta |title = Role of Ahom Women with Special Reference to Mulagabharu, Jaymati Konwari and Bar Raja Phuleswari Konwari| journal= Proceedings of the Indian History Congress| volume=72(II) | year=2011| pages= 1511–1512| jstor=44145777}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://archive.is/20130628171257/http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=mar3109/edit3 Joymoti Konwari: an epitome of ideal womanhood] – Dr Kathita Hatibaruah<br />
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