History of RangadipL'histoire de RangadipBefore, in this village, the Bonos were here.thisvillageLOCfirstthisxxLOCfirstwhathowever.muchbePA.3hereLOCBonoPLbePA.3How the Bonos got wiped out — the adults all went to work, the children all stayed home and a ban-jhankri went on picking them off and eating them and wiped them out.thisBonoPLhowfinish.offbecomePA.3??ifonly[so-and-so]workmakeworkmakePURPgo3PLelderhowever.muchchildhowever.muchhouseLOCbeACTogrepick.upCJtakeCJogrepick.upCJtakeCJeat.APPLCJ2finish.offmakeEPENPA.3PLAfter the children were wiped out, they were old — there were only old men and women.finish.offbecomePA.3afterold.personbecomePA.3wifemaleonlyold.personbecomePA.3DUThere were no children left.daughtersonfinishedbecomePA.3Now in the village, the was an old man whom the others used to say was the culprit.butvillageLOCNOMother.PLPLsayACTbecomePA.3PLoneold.manbePA.3They all told that old man, "You're the one eating our children," and they started to beat him.thatold.man2thischildTOP2eat2EVIDsayCJ2allERGthatold.manbeatINFbeginningmakeEPENPA.3PL"No, I didn't eat the children.NEG1SGNEGeat1SGNPTthischildPLNow you all sew a drum of hide,nowoneskinGENdrumsewIMP.PL>3put me inside it, and put in a knife for me.that.oneLOC.in1SGput.inside.N2PL1SG.IMPoneknifeinsertCONNgiveIMP.PL>1SGThen you'll find out," he said. They sewed a bag out of buffalo-hide,thenknowledgebecomesayPA.3aftertrueonebuffaloskinGENbagsewCJand they put that old man in and gave him a knife.that.oneLOC.inthatold.maninsertCJknifegiveCJkeepPA.3PLThey [the ban-jhankris] came in the afternoon, but there was no one.middaycomeEPENPA.3PLwhoalsoNEGbe3PLThey searched all over for children, but there were none.middaythathere.and.therechildlook.forPA.3PLNEGbechildThen that old man made noise "dong dong" inside the drum.thereLOCONOMmakeEPEN3that.onedrumLOC.inthatelderERG"Hey, someone's making noise, where is he?" they said and again they searched.heysoundTOPmakeEPEN3wherebepersonsayCJ2againINTENSlook.for3PLThey searched and searched like this, and they finally found him out, in the drum. "The man's inside," they said and they carried it off.thus.INTENSthuslook.forCJINTENSlook.forCJINTENSnowonlyknowledgebringmakeEPENPA.3PLNOMdruminthisLOC.inbeEVIDpersonsayCJthat.onecarrytakePA.3PLThey carried it off, they took away the drum, but how to open it?carrygoPA.3PLafterdrumtakePA.3PLbreak.openINFNOMwhatINTENSOne said, "You go find an ax!", another said "You go find an ax!onealsoaxlook.forPURPgoEPENIMP>3onealsoaxlook.forPURPgoEPENIMP>>3While I'm bringing the ax, you'll take him out and eat him!"1SGaxbring1SG>3bring1SG>3PART2extract2afterPARTeat2ASP.finish2PL"In that case, OK, let's all go find an ax and bring it," they said and they all went to find an axe.sayPA.3PLthenthusifthere!allINTENSgoACTaxlook.forPURPaftercome1PL.INCLsayPA.3PLPARTallINTENSaxlook.forPURPgoEPENPA.3PLThen the old manthattimeLOCelderERGcut open the drum with the knife and came out.that[so-and-so]drumknifeINSTONOMcut.openPA.3afterONOMcome.outPA.3He came out and there were the bones and the bracelets and the clothes of the children who had been taken and eaten — he got together as much as he could pick up in one go — he picked it all up and ran.ONOMcome.outPA.3afterthatchildPLtakePARTeatPARTGEN3bonesbraceletPLbeACTclothingPLonetimeINSTfindPA.3PARThow.muchfindPA.3pick.up.NCONNbe.ablePA.3PLONOMpick.upPA.3afterrunPA.3He brought it back and said, "Here is the trace of your children. You said 'Old man, you ate them!',runPA.3aftercomePA.3afterthere!sign2PLchildrenGENsignthisINTENS2old.manERGeatEPENPA.2eatEPENPA.2sayPA.2sayPA.2PLbut the proof is these bracelets and marks and clothes — are these yours or not?"butproventhisbraceletPLsignPLthisclothPLisINTERRis.not2PLGENHe asked them and they answered, "Why, yes, they are!sayPA.3PARTsayPA.3PARTisEVIDSo where are they?" — "They're in such and such a place," he said,wherebeACTEVIDsayPA.3PARTthisthusNOMplaceLOCbeACTEVIDsayCJ2"They're in Lodo," he said.thisLodoLOC.inbeACTEVIDsayCJ2Then they all searched them all out, the searched for them in the cave, they blew up a big fire and they burned them, they burned them in the cave, those ban-jhankris were all burned to death in the cave.sayPA.3afterallINTENSgoEPENPA.3PLafterthat[so-and-so]caveLOCgoEPENPA.3PLmuchfireblowPA.3PLaftermuchINTENSroastEPENPA.3PLREP[so-and-so]caveINTENSroastEPENPA.3afterthatLOC.inNOMogreallburnPA.3PLafterdiePA.3PLThey died.diePA.3PLREPThere was one ban-jhankri who had made a waistband of a yam-vine and had flown off and got to a place called Beteni.then[so-and-so]oneogreTOPthereLOConeyamGEN3vineGENwaistbandmakeCJthenflyPA.3goPA.3afterBetenisayPARTplaceLOCarrivePA.3NOMbeREPOne pregnant one flew off, the other ban-jhankris were really burned to ashes.onepregnantgoCJflyCJgoCJ2other.PLogrethentruly??INTENSashbecomePA.3PLAfter that, after the Bono died off, we Rumdalis had come up in Rumjatar — Rumdalis were first in Rumjatar.afterthereLOCBonofinish.offbecomePA.3PLafterfirstRumdaliRumjatarLOCoriginbecomePA.1PL.EXCLRumdalithereINTENSfirstRumjatarbePA.3afterRumdalibecomePA.3PLAfter that they were here in Deusimbu (Rangadip) -- the grandsons of Old Rung.thencomeCJ2thisDeusimbulandLOCbePA.3EVIDxx[so-and-so]xxRungold.manafter3grandchildbePA.3EVIDhereThey were here — what happened, there was only one Rumdali offshoot that came here.herebePA.3PLPARTwhatbecomePA.3REPoneRumdalioneseeedlingonlycomeACTbePA.3This land had all been worked by Bahun-Chhetris.thisfieldallBahunPLERGmakePARTbePA.3REPBut what that Rumdali did,butthatRumdaliERGwhatmakeEPENPA.3ifhe started snatching those Bahun's crops, and thenthatBahunPLnowsnatchINFbeginningmakeEPENPA.3and.thenone member of the Pijatsa clan — they were two Rumdalis, an eldest brother and his son-in-law,PiyatsaoneoneRumdalitwobecomePA.3DUeldest.brotherson-in-lawbecomePA.3DUafterthose two were snatching all the Bahuns' crops.BahunPLallBahunPLGEN3PLproducesnatchACTbecomePA.3DUthatDUERGThen they fought with the Bahuns.snatchACTbecomePA.3DUafterBahunSOCfightEPENPA.3PLThey went on tearing the skirts of the Bahun women and throwing them away,Bahun.FEMGENTOP3skirttearCJthrow.awayCONNgiveCJmakePARTand they seized the Bahuns and put them into the nettle-patch, when they were fighting. The Bahuns had made an arena in a place called Dhimbli, and they fought with arms.Bahunhowever.muchseizeCJnettlevegetableLOC.ininsertCJmakeEPENPA.3PLfightEPENPA.3PLfightEPENPA.3PLPARTDhimblisayPARTplaceLOCBahunPLERGINTENSarenaextractPA.3PLaftercutfightEPENPA.3NOMREPSince they [the Bahuns] fought with knives, they [the Rumdali] said "Now an arena has opened at the Bahuns' place, OK, let's [DUAL] fight!"cutfightEPENPA.3PLPARTthere!nowarenaBahunPLGENLOCopenbecomePA.3there!1DU.INCLcut1DU.INCL.SAsayCJ2They started fighting the Bahuns and they beat them and chased them, some toward Dandrame, some to the Pukting River — they chased them from here and the Bahuns left.BahunPLcutCONNstartPA.3PLREPbeatCJINTENSchaseCJ2??DandrameGENborder??PuktingGENbordermakeCJ2bordermakeEPENPA.3PLxxafterchasePA.3PLhereLOCBahunPLput.outPA.3PLREPIn the end, when the Bahuns had left, there was one Bahun woman who was about to commit sati, after her husband had died.afterfinallythatBahunPLgoEPENPA.3PLafterfinallyLOCone[so-and-so]oneBahun.FEM3malediePA.3aftersatigoINFNOMtimebePA.3REPthusPARTWhen it was time for her to commit sati, after her husband's death, she said,after3malediePA.3aftersatigoCONNtimethatERGsayPA.3REP"We did everything on this Deusimbu land, we made ricefields, we made cultivation, and now when we were said we would eat and drink, the Rais chased us away.butnowDeusimbuplaceLOC1PL.EXCLeverymakeEPENPA.1PL.EXCLproducemakeEPENPA.1PL.EXCLboundarymakeEPENPA.1PL.EXCLnoweatNPA.1PL.EXCLdrink1PL.EXCLsayPA.1PL.EXCLNOMtimeLOCthusCJ2RaiPLERG1PL.EXCLchasePA.3PL>1PL.EXCLBut they too, whoever is on this land in Deusimbu, after their labor and their hardship, when at last they think they have enough flour, let misfortune like ours befall them, let disaster befall them, and let there never be enough for them to eat and drink!"butthisPLalsothislandLOCbeACThowever.muchthisDeusimbuLOC.inthusINTENSpainmakeEPEN3makeEPEN3afternowTOPflourINSTsufficePA.1SOsayNOMtime1SGGENlikeonecircumstancebefallbecomeOPTmisfortunehead.forbecomeOPTaftereatINFdrinkINFINSTwhenalsosufficeINFNEGbecomeOPTShe spoke, and this Deusambu land, called Rangadip, became cursed.sayPA.3aftersatiGENcursebecomeACTisthisDeusimbulandRangadipsayPARTHere there no very rich men, and there are none who are very badly off.afterthisLOC.inextremeNOMrichalsoNEGbecome3PLveryINTENSsufferingNEGbecome3PLIf someone gets together a pint of flour, someone else will spoil it and then there's not enough to eat or drink.onepintflourGENprovisionmakeEPEN3ifthatpersononeLOCbe.ruined.3SG.OPTstrikebecomeaftereatINFdrinkINFINSTNEGsufficePA.3