KULPUI (Khur)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A relatively small but elusive cave entrance is reputed to give access to a cave passage increasing in size (Hapka, R 2010.02.19 Mss: Khur Kulpui after Brian D. Kharpran Daly 2010 personal communication). ETYMOLOGY: The Biate (also: Peihte, a Mizo dialect) cave name -Khur Kulpui- (note 1) appears to translate as something along the lines of a Mainly Stooping Cave as -khur- is one of the Mizo words for cave (note 2) and -kul- means with bent back (note 3) while -pui- means not only big (note 4) but also permanent (note 5). SITUATION: At an unknown location which was understood as in a canyon cliff somewhere in the vicinity of the unidentified village of Kulpui (unspecified GPS position) which is said to lie east of Saipung (note 6) and on a quite nonsensical and somewhat deranged ridge direction of the Tlangpui village (dirt road for Sumo) in connection with with the Mizo compound noun -tlangpui- means, literally translated, a big hill and is the name of a village where Hapka, R (2010.2.19 Mss: Khur Kulpui) mastered to ignore regarding, reading and recording a GPS position. Here, all area is on the sandstone from ridge (1126 m) until the Kopili river (751 m on the rope hanging bridge) to Assam (Hapka, R 2010.02.19 Mss: Khur Kulpui). APPROACH: Hapka (2010.02.19 Mss: Khur Kulpui) simply commands to continue about 1 km after the village of Kulpui (with unidentified GPS position). CAVE POTENTIAL: Fully unaware of the wide range of host rocks in which interesting caves have been formed and can be found, Hapka (2010.02.19 Mss: Khur Kulpui), resorted to a narrow-minded and stunningly unreflected belief according to which the possibility to find fine caves is quiet low in all this area simply because it is no more in limestone but in sandstone. Such a prejudice is, of course, based on nothing but ignorance and not tenable at all.A relatively small but elusive cave entrance is reputed to give access to a cave passage increasing in size (Hapka, R 2010.02.19 Mss: Khur Kulpui after Brian D. Kharpran Daly 2010 personal communication). ETYMOLOGY: The Biate (also: Peihte, a Mizo dialect) cave name -Khur Kulpui- (note 1) appears to translate as something along the lines of a Mainly Stooping Cave as -khur- is one of the Mizo words for cave (note 2) and -kul- means with bent back (note 3) while -pui- means not only big (note 4) but also permanent (note 5). SITUATION: At an unknown location which was understood as in a canyon cliff somewhere in the vicinity of the unidentified village of Kulpui (unspecified GPS position) which is said to lie east of Saipung (note 6) and on a quite nonsensical and somewhat deranged ridge direction of the Tlangpui village (dirt road for Sumo) in connection with with the Mizo compound noun -tlangpui- means, literally translated, a big hill and is the name of a village where Hapka, R (2010.A relatively small but elusive cave entrance is reputed to give access to a cave passage increasing in size (Hapka, R 2010.02.19 Mss: Khur Kulpui after Brian D. Kharpran Daly 2010 personal communication). ETYMOLOGY: The Biate (also: Peihte, a Mizo dialect) cave name -Khur Kulpui- (note 1) appears to translate as something along the lines of a Mainly Stooping Cave as -khur- is one of the Mizo words for cave (note 2) and -kul- means with bent back (note 3) while -pui- means not only big (note 4) but also permanent (note 5). SITUATION: At an unknown location which was understood as in a canyon cliff somewhere in the vicinity of the unidentified village of Kulpui (unspecified GPS position) which is said to lie east of Saipung (note 6) and on a quite nonsensical and somewhat deranged ridge direction of the Tlangpui village (dirt road for Sumo) in connection with with the Mizo compound noun -tlangpui- means, literally translated, a big hill and is the name of a village where Hapka, R (2010.2.19 Mss: Khur Kulpui) mastered to ignore regarding, reading and recording a GPS position. Here, all area is on the sandstone from ridge (1126 m) until the Kopili river (751 m on the rope hanging bridge) to Assam (Hapka, R 2010.02.19 Mss: Khur Kulpui). APPROACH: Hapka (2010.02.19 Mss: Khur Kulpui) simply commands to continue about 1 km after the village of Kulpui (with unidentified GPS position). CAVE POTENTIAL: Fully unaware of the wide range of host rocks in which interesting caves have been formed and can be found, Hapka (2010.02.19 Mss: Khur Kulpui), resorted to a narrow-minded and stunningly unreflected belief according to which the possibility to find fine caves is quiet low in all this area simply because it is no more in limestone but in sandstone. Such a prejudice is, of course, based on nothing but ignorance and not tenable at all.