| Monday, September 24, 2007 |
Chhura hi pasan tha tak leh chak tak anga sawi a ni thin a, amaherawhchu mi ngaihsam tak angin a lang bawk thin. A fingvar vak lo nia ngai an awm thin a, a chawhmeh duhzawng tak Aium a hloh thu pawh hi ngaihnawm tak a ni. Vawikhat chu Chhura hi a zinna lamah Ai-um an lo hmehpui a, chu chu tui a ti em em mai a, 'Kan khua ka thlen hun chuan ka nupui ka siamtir ve phawt ang' a ti a, an chawhmeh chu 'Engnge ni?' tiin a zawt a. A thlen in te chuan, 'Ai-um anih kha' an ti a.
Tichuan an in lam panin a hawng ta a. Kalkawngah chuan theihnghilh a hlau va, 'Ai-um, Ai-um' a ti zel a. Nimahsela, sawntlung nalah a tawlh-thlu zawt a, Ai-um hming chu a theihnghilh ta daih mai a. A tlukna vel chu a zawng a, a hai fai hun mai a. Chutihlai chuan pawi pakhat hi a lo kal kher a, Chhura chuan, 'Pawia, ka englo hloh min han zawnpui te' a ti a; chu Pawi chuan, 'I thil hloh chu engnge ni?' a ti a. Chhura chuan, 'Ka hriatin zawnpui ka ngai nang!' a ti si a.
Tahchuan, Pawite chuan, 'A thil eng kher chu i hloh ni maw! Nangmah lah chu Ai-um rim i nam ang vut vuta' a han ti a. Chuveleh Chhura chuan, 'Chu chu anih chu' a ti a, theihnghilh leh a hlau va, 'Ai-um, Ai-um' ti chung zel chuan a kal ta zel a.
Chhura hian Thingtuboh lian deuh mai anei a. Chu chuan kalkawng a vaw rual thin a, tualzawl zau tak takte pawh a siam thin a ni awm e. Vanlaiphai leh a chhehvel mel 5 laia zel vel khi Chhura vuakzawl niin an sawi thin.
Vanlaiphai thlen chhoh hma khian lung lian tak tak al um rem rum a, thenkhat chuan Chhura sekhalhte an ti a, mi thenkhat erawh chuan Thenzawla a awm laia a saihlum rawn perh chhoh a ni e, an ti bawk.
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Chhura loses his Crab curry
Chhura is often represented as a man of immense strength and stature, of an easy-going disposition, but not much blessed with brains. Thus one story tells of how, being on a visit, he was regaled with a crab stew, which he had not tasted before, an liked greatly. He inquired of what animal it was made as he wanted to ask his wife to prepare the same.
On his was home he forgot the name of that dish and commenced searching since he could not recollect the name and how it was made. Someone seeing him looking about asked what he had lost there. 'Stupid' replied Chhura; 'If I knew, would I be looking for what I've been searching?' The passer by thereafter helped him in searching what he really did not know. After sometime the passerby remarked that he smelt strongly of crab's potted curry.
Then Chhura cried, 'That's it! That's what I was searching for, now I remember its name'. Knowing the name once again he became so much pleased and went on his way.
His mallet head, a roughly dressed cylinder of stone, about 30 inches long and 18 inches in diameter, is pointed out to the curious, lying beside the path between the village of Leng and Lingvum, where it is said to have fallen when it flew off the handle while Chhura was flattening the earth in the Vanlaiphai valley some five miles away.
A large spherical stone in the same neighbourhood is pointed out as one of the pellets shot from his pellet bow when he was at Thenzawl, many miles distant. |
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