PUT LYER (Krem)

(Khliehriat - IN)
25.173900,92.372800
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 07/05/2016

The 9th known cave entrance to Krem –>Kotsati consists of a funnel-shaped doline (about 10 m in diameter), descends a few metres down to the brink of a 23 m deep vertical shaft down into a horizontal cave passage in Krem Kot Sati. ETYMOLOGY: The Synteng Khasi (Pnar) "put lyer" was said to mean »blowing hole« (note 1) as it emits, especially on cool days in winter, a relatively strong current of moisture laden air (vapour, plume, etc.). SITUATION: On the southern fringes of Lumshnong village proper, on the west (right) side of the Khliehriat - Sonapur road, and hidden in the jungle below the 'Border Task Force' (paramilitary engineers) camp.

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 07/05/2016

NOTE 1: put (Khasi; verb) sound a wind instrument (SINGH, N 1906: 165); whistle; wind (SINGH, N 1920: 591, 593); pipe; whistle (BLAH, E 2007: 225, 332). ka lyér (SINGH, N 1906: 115, 121; SINGH, N 1920: 598; BLAH, E 2007: 8, 333), abbreviated ”ka l'er” (SINGH, N 1906: 115, 121; SINGH, N 1920: 13) and ”ka 'er” (SINGH, N 1906: 76), has not only been translated as »air« (SINGH, N 1906: 76, 115, 121; SINGH, N 1920: 13; BLAH, E 2007: 8) but also as »wind« (OLDHAM, T 1854 / 1984 appendix C: lxviii; SINGH, N 1906: 76, 115, 121; SINGH, N 1920: 593; BLAH, E 2007: 333) and »breeze« (SINGH, N 1906: 76).

History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1996.03.10: H. Daniel Gebauer, Brian D. Kharpran Daly, Georg Bäumler, Franz Baumgartner, Kyrmen 'Hope' C Hiwot Passah and Roiy Sayag noted the daylight aven while surveying upstream Umlawan river. 1993.03.11: H. Daniel Gebauer and G. Bäumler (attacked by a desolate leach in the thicket) dropped a stone on a topofil thread and tied the location of Krem Put Lyer into the Krem Kotsati surface survey. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 07/05/2016

Caves nearby

Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
0.3DIENIUNG, Lumshnong, 3rd (Krem)
0.4AA CAVE, Lumshnong (Lindenmayr) 09
0.4DIENIUNG, Lumshnong, 2nd (Krem)
0.4NEP, Lumshnong (Krem ba)
0.4DIENIUNG, Lumshnong, 1st (Krem)
0.4UMSHOR (Krem)
0.4UMSHOR 2 (Krem)
0.4UMSHOR 3 (Krem)
0.4AA CAVE, Lumshnong (Lindenmayr) 08