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Translation (Htoi San)
Once upon a time, a hunter who was brilliant at shooting crossbows lived in a village. The villagers were jealous of him for his talent. Therefore, they planned to kill him. As they thought of an idea, Near their village, there was a cave where the wind hole was. They went to cut crops and placed them in the pothole. The village men told him, "Let's go hunting one day. You are the best hunter, and you know how to shoot crossbows very well. When we are surrounding the prey, you come out and shoot it." Then they let him wait near the wind hole from the cave. The villagers shouted from the side. Due to their shouting, from the wind hole of the cavity where they put their crops, the air blew and made a sound like “Sawk Sawk Sawk.” They told him, “Now, shoot faster! Gash quickly! Kill speedily!” The hunter thought it was the time, and he jumped out of place. As a result, he fell into the pit. He slipped to the ground and he found a realm (gatsan ga) where people were tiny. They cut down the roots of trees with axes, and they made a ladder to pick the chilis and eggplants. The hunter used his hands to pick those. But the tiny people in that country had to use the axes to cut down the plants, which he pulled and broke all those plants. Therefore, people from the tiny world did not like him. "This man just breaks the trees with his bare hands when we need to cut down with all of our efforts. If it is so, he will kill us later. We should send him off faster," said the little people. At that time, his friends, who were jealous of him and assassinated him from his world, told his wife about him. Thus, his wife went to the pit hole where he fell into and cried. She cried there all the time. As she constantly moaned there, she saw a big hole at the edge of the pit hole when the crops dried as time went by. His wife collected the seeds of creepers and poured them into that big hole. As a result, the seeds went into the ground. The creeper vines grew like a ladder. The vines increased like a ladder and steps. The creepers grew up bigger and bigger. In the tiny realm, little people did not like the hunter. He just smashed worms and caterpillars with his bare hands. He punched and killed them. The little men needed to use guns and javelins to finish those insects. He just destroyed the animals quickly. Therefore, the people from the other world did not fancy him. They wanted to send him back to his world. They brought him passing one by one. They sent him until he got to where he first dropped in. When he reached there, he found a tree root that was flat, wide, and long. It went up like a ladder up to the hole. He climbed upon it. So, he reached the earth. When he got there, he observed the place. A dove cooed at the top of a tree. When his wife heard that dove’s cooing, she went there and cursed these words, “E! if my husband listened to this cooing sound, even if it is the soul of my beloved, my life partner, please make a cooing sound again.” She said something like this. Then the dove cooed again for real. As the hunter heard the cooing sound, he climbed up to the place of sound. He was climbing up, and the dove was making its sound, so his wife said, “E e dove, please make the cooing sound again, if this is the spirit of my beloved husband. Please make a coo for one more time.” So the dove made a sound again. That man heard the sound of a dove, and his wife, he went up and saw his wife was there alone. “Who are you?” When he asked the lady, she answered, “I am the wife of the hunter Ma Gam.” She replied this to him. Only then that man came down from the creeper vine. In the end, he went back with his wife, and they lived together.
Transcription (Lu Hkawng)
Ya ngai hkai na maumwi gaw ndan jaugawng ndan gap grai byin ai, ndan gap grai byin ai la wa dai shanhte mare na ni manawn nna she la dai hpe sat na hku nyan ai da. Nyan re yang she ndai le ginlawn hku nbung hku i bung law hku nga ai dai kaw she nam sa dan bang da na she la dai hpe she ''Lani mi shan wang sa ga nang gaw jaugawng grai byin ai re nga gaw ndan gap grai byin ai re ai majaw gaw anhte wang dat ai hte nang gaw dai kaw pru wa ai kaw hkap gap u'' ngu yang she dai wa gaw dai nbung hku ginlawn hku dai makau de hkap nga shangun ai da. Oh ra ni gaw le makau de marawn jahtau wa na she marawn jahtau wa re yang she kaja sha wa dai shanhte nam dan bang tawn ai dai hkying lawn hku nbung hku dai kaw she nbung bung wa na sawk sawk sawk nga kasawk wa na she dai ni gaw ''Ke ya gaw lawan gap nu lawan gahtam sa nu lawan gap sat shanu'' ngu jang she la dai wa kaja wa dai kaw she gahkan gap na ngu ai gahkan bang ai she ginlawn hku dai kaw lut mat wa sai da. Ga kata de lut bang mat wa rai yang gaw ga kata de du shang mat wa yang dai ga gatsan ga dai de na ni gaw kaji ji sha law ai hpun ru hpun ni hpe pyi ningwa hte kran, shaba majap hpun ni hpe mung lakang htan na lung di re ai da. Rai yang shi gaw lata hte sha atsawm tsawm re di ya dai shanhte ningwa hte kran ai hpun dai ni hpe mung shi gaw lata hte sha gang daw kau ya rai jang she dai kaw na ni bai n ra sai da. ''E la ndai gaw anhte pyi ningwa hte agying agang kyan ra ai hpun ni hpe mung lata hte sha daw kau re ai gaw ndai gaw hpang e wa anhte hpe pyi sat kau lai she re lawan she wa sa sa ga'' ngu ai da. Rai yang she dai mi na shi kaw manawn sat kau ai dai de na ni shi na madu jan gaw madu wa lahkan bang mat wa ai nhkrun dai de chyu sa yu nna sa hkrap hkrap re nga ai hku rai re nga sa hkrap nga rai yang she hpang e dai nam de hkraw mat jang gaw nhkrun kaba hku kaba rai taw ai mu jang gaw shi gaw dai hku dai kaw she Shamyen si di lahkyin la na she dai hku kaw ru bang dai hku kaba dai kaw ru bang na hku nga ru bang rai yang she ndai shamyen ru gaw le ga de shang mat wa na she bai tu pru wa shamyen ru gaw ya rai tim ndai lakang zawn zawn re i kyawk kyawk re ai wa lakang zawn zawn re kyawk kyawk re yang she shamyen ru dai tu kaba wa rai jang she oh ra ga gatsan ga na ni gaw dai jaugawng la dai hpe n ra wa sai da. Oh shingtai sumbra ni hpa ni hpe mung shi gaw lagaw lata hte sha dip sat kau ya, Anyaw sat kau ya re shanhte gaw manu mana sanat hte gap nri hte galun re ra ai wa mi she dai la wa gaw dan re lata hte sha angyaw sat kau ya dan re jang she shanhte mung dai ga gatsan ga na ni mung dai wa hpe n ra wa re yang she wa sa kau ga wa sa kau ga ngu na she htaw langai hte langai, langai hte langai sa mat wa sai da law kaja wa mi shi shang mat wa ai dai hku de du mat wa sai da. Du mat wa yang she hpun ru langai mi pa pa re galu re na krawn lung wa ai mi wa hkrup dat yang she dai kaw wa lakang zawn zawn re na bai lakyawk taw rai jang she dai kaw lung wa sai da law, lung wa rai jang she dai anhte ding hta lapran ndai de bai du wa ai da. Du wa re yang she ning ngu na wa mada dat yang she htaw hpun ndung kaw she Uhkru du langai mi ngoi nga ai da. Uhkru du langai mi ngoi nga ai kaw she Uhkru du langai mi ngoi ai wa na ai da. Dai Uhkru du ngoi ai na jang she shi madu jan mung dai de sa nna she ndai matan ga hte she ''E nye madu wa dai Uhkru du ngoi jang she nye a madu wa nye a nja nhpra wa ya numla rai yang gaw ya bai naw du du yu u law Uhkru du nang e'' ngu na she bai tsun sai da. Rai yang she kaja wa dai Uhkru du mung bai ngoi sai da. Ngoi rai jang she dai la dai wa mung Uhkru du ngoi jang she grau ngoi ntsa de lung wa re yang she ntsa de lung wa Uhkru du bai ngoi rai jang dai num jan mung ''E e Uhkru e ya bai du du yu u law nye a nja nhpra wa ya numla rai yang gaw ya bai kalang bai du du yu u law'' ngu kalang bai ngoi dai la wa mung kaja wa dai Uhkru du ngoi num jan shaga ai na jang she ntsa de lung wa yu yang she dai madu jan sa nga taw ai hpe bai mu sai da. Mu rai jang she ''Nang kadai rai ni e'' nga yang she ''Ngai jaugawng ma gam a ningrum ningtau jan rai ni ai law'' ngu na tsun sai da. Shaloi she dai la wa gaw dai shamyen ru kaw na yu wa re na she dai shi na madu jan hte rau bai wa nga mat ai da. |
