Himalayan Times (1962)

May 20, 1962

Himalayan Times

Seven

the room. They thought
that the boy wanted to
tut ftie pudding secretly
and had thus burnt bia
hand. The boy denied,
and in defence said " The
on* who is above can
only say how inn> cent I
am". StmkchHH' who was
sitting overhead on the
beam at once replied
"you, boy, asked pudding
and I gave it to you.
You are to blame for
burning your hand." J hey
looked up and were sur-
prized to see Sbekchilli
sitting on the beam At
kind of noise was made,
and the thieves disap-
peared. They told him
to get down and he did,
still saying. 'The boy
askedv for pudding apd
he did. He was not to
blame for burning-' his
fingers." On enquiry they
lesrnt that the thieves
had brought him. They
realised thai by his action
Shekchilli Rawd their pro-
perty from the thieves(
and they therefore told
him to ask for something.
Thinking that he might
raise a crop and thus get
his living ho asked for
one seer of gram which
they gladly gave.

In the morning, he
came bick to his mother
in a smiling face and
showed her the gram.
She said that it was a
small amount and that
it would feed them only
for a day. He replied

that he would sow the
gram in bis small field
and grow a crop which
would feed them for days.
Thinking that he oould
double his crop by break,
in? each gram into two
pieces, he broke each
grain into two pieces in
a grinding wheel, only
one grain remaining un-
broken through over-sight.
When the whole lot was
sown, only the unbroken
one germinated, and be .'
got only . one plant to
look after. He however
watched it day and night
against birds .and animals.

One njghtthe rain-'
god, In'riraw came down
to earth on his giant
elephant Airabata and
was passing through his
field. Fearing* lest his
small plant should be
crushed, he ran to the
elephant and twisted its
tail. The rain-god was
surprized to see him so
behaving, and asked what
he wanted He replied
that with great difficulty
he had a plant which he
was guarding day and
night, but his animal
was going to trample it.
Taking pity of his miser-
able condition the god
blessed him and threw
some pieces of gold into
his field. He fell asleep
in his field and next
morning Shekobilti found
his mental backwardness
gone. Picking up gold
pieces be went to his

mother grinniDg and gave
them to her. He also
narrated the whole inci-
dent, and the mother and
the son, lived happily tor
many years with rain-
god's gold.

SINQ-NEPALESE BORDER
DIVISION FROM JUNE

Kathmandu, May 18

The Sino-Kepalese

Boundary Commission, in
its meeting here today,
decided to begin from the"
end of June the aotual
demarcation .of , borders'
between the.two countries
in aocordanoe with, an
agreement arrived at last
year.'.. J.

Unit" a dozen teams
from both the Nepalese
and Chinese sides will
then assemble at the eas-
i.tern and western points
of the border and about
100 cement pillars would
be erected along the bor-
der. An official spokes-
man of the commission
said the ides was to erect
boundary pillars only at
places where there might
be the likelihood of any
future misunderstandings.

General Padambaha-
dur Khatri Nepal's Defen-
ce Secretary and Chairman
of the Nepalese team
represented at the com-
mission, said the meeting
was held in a ojrdial
atmosphere.