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Translation (Lazing Htoi San & Keita Kurabe)
The story I'm going to tell now is called "The Man Who Carried His Father." Long ago, there was a man who lived with his elderly father. One day, the man got married. His wife neither respected her husband's father, her father-in-law, nor loved him. So, she constantly nagged her husband to send his father far away. Because she kept saying this so much, one day, the man wove a large basket. Seeing him weaving the large basket, the father asked, "My son, why are you weaving such a big basket?" However, the son didn't answer anything. When he finished weaving the basket, he said to his father, "Father, please get inside this basket." And he carried his father away. Thus, carrying his father, he walked far away from the village, to a deserted place. "Father, please stay here," when they arrived he said, and turned to leave. As the man was walking away, his father called out, "My son, come here." "You are going to leave me here now." "You have now married," "and soon you will have a child of your own." "That child will one day carry you away just as you have done to me." "So, take this basket home for your child to use in the future." Hearing these words, the son was greatly shocked and had a change of heart. He realized he had been wrong for only listening to his wife, and he decided to change his ways. He carried his father back home. When they arrived home, he said to his wife, "Wife, because of what you made me do," "I have changed my mind." "I cannot leave my father in a faraway place." "I have brought my father back." "I cannot be separated from my father." "If you want to return to your parents' home, then go ahead," he said firmly to his wife.
Transcription (Galang Lu Hkawng & Sumlut Gun Mai)
Ya hkai dan na maumwi gaw "Kawa Hpe Gun Ai La A Lam" nga ai re. Moi shawng de, kawa dingla hte nga ai la langai mi gaw dinghku de ai da. Dai hku dinghku de ai shaloi gaw shi na madu jan gaw dai la wa a kawa, shi a kagu hpe hkungga la ra mung n nga ai hte tsaw ra mung n chye tsaw ra ai da. Dai majaw, dai madu jan gaw madu wa a kawa, shi na kagu hpe tsan tsan de sa gun sa kau na matu shani shagu atet tsun ai da. Nau atet tsun ai majaw, madu wa gaw lani mi gaw ka kaba law ai wa sai da. Dai zawn ka kaba law wa taw ai hpe kawa dingla mu ai shaloi gaw "Nye kasha e, dai ram kaba law ai ka hpe hpa majaw wa taw ai ma?" ngu san tim, dai kasha la wa gaw hpa n tsun ai sha, dai ka wa ngut ai shaloi gaw, kawa hpe "Awa, nang nang kaw rawng rit," ngu nna kawa hpe gun mat wa ai da. Dai zawn kawa hpe ka kaw gun rai nna shanhte na mare hte grai tsan ai shara, masha n nga ai shara de sa gun sa da nna "Awa, nang ndai kaw nga sanu yaw" ngu nna, dai la wa gaw bai nhtang wa sai da. Dai zawn dai la wa nnan sha naw nhtang hkawm wa ai shaloi, kawa gaw "Nye kasha e, Awa kaw naw nhtang wa yu rit." "Ya nang awa hpe kabai kau da sai nga yang," "ya nang mung madu jan lu sai hte" "kade n na yang kasha mung bai lu wa na ra ai." "Dai majaw, na kasha mung nang hpe bai gun sa ra na re." "Dai majaw, nang ndai ka hpe bai la mat wa u," ngu tsun dat ai da. Kawa dai hku tsun dat yang she, dai la wa gaw grai na kajawng mat ai hte myit malai lu mat ai da. Shi madu jan a ga sha madat nna galaw ai shut sai ngu nna myit malai lu ai hte shi a kawa hpe dum nta de bai gun wa ai da. Nta du ai shaloi madu jan hpe "Madu jan e, nang galaw shagun ai hpe galaw ai majaw," "ngai gaw myit malai lu sai." "Nye wa hpe ngai tsan tsan de n lu sa tawn kau ai." "Ya ngai nye wa hpe bai gun wa sai." "Ngai gaw nye wa hte n lu hka ai." "Nang mahtang wa mat na nga yang mung wa mat sanu," ngu nna shi a madu jan hpe bai nhtang tsun kau dat ai da. |
