PUKZING PUK

(West Phaileng - IN)
23.350000,92.433300
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 07/05/2016

»Pukzing cave, which goes 25 m inside, is the biggest cave in Mizoram« (RAY 1993: 16). SITUATION: Pukzing N23°21': E92°26' (nima.mil/geonames accessed 16.11.2003) is shown on the map MIZORAM LEH… (ed. C.V. Ralte, ca. 1997) in the south-western corner of Aizawl West district, and on the road from Phaileng to Marpara. CAVE LEGEND: »The story goes that the cave was carved out of the hills by a very strong person who could clear hundred ranges of forest in one day. He was such a strong man that he could make the cave with only his hair pin as a tool« (RAY 1993: 16). »Pukzing Cave [is] about 25 km [sic!] wide is the biggest cave said to have been carved out using a hairpin by a sturdy man called Mualzavata« (shubhyatra.com/mizoram accessed 2005.11.09). »Pukzing Cave: Situated at Pukzing village near Marpara in the western hills within Aizawl district is the Pukzing Cave. Pukzing cave, which goes 25 m inside is the biggest cave in Mizoram. The legend says that the cave was carved out of the hills by a very strong man called Mualzavata, the name meaning a person who could clear hundred ranges of forest in just one day« (scstsenvis.nic.in/envis/mizoram.htm accessed 2009.01.19).

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