CITRUS CAVE (aa -)
25.207200,92.370800
Description
A relatively »small doline« of unknown size and unspecified shape is said to gives access to an unspecified cave entrance of unknown shape or dimensions which gave the impression of leading to an estimated »10 m of choked passages« (Jarratt 1998 Mss). ETYMOLOGY: No autochthonous, indigenous or locally known name has been identified for what has been a more or less »small doline« in a plantation (note 1) of unidentified citrus plants (note 2). SITUATION: In what had been in March 1998 a citrus plantation which was said to lie at an estimated 300 m or ten walking minutes without orientation from an unknown starting point in the village of Chiehruphi (note 3), and somewhere on a »way back« from Krem –>Umkhlu (note 4) »down the road« (Jarratt 1998 Mss). POSITION: Unknown. The GPS position recorded by A R Jarratt on 6th March 1998 for the cave entrance of the so-called Citrus cave is identical with the GPS position recorded by A R Jarratt on the same day for the cave entrance of Krem –>Umkhlaw, Chiehruphi.
NOTE 1: ka bri (Khasi; noun) a grove, estate, farm (SINGH, N 1906: 14); plantation (BLAH, E 2007: 226). bari (Bengali; noun) house, manor, estate (GHOSH, Amitav 2004). bari (Assamese; noun) garden (BARPUJARI, H K 1976 ed. 1998: 158). ka jingthung (Khasi; noun) plantation (SINGH, N 1920: 389) in the sense of ”ka jaka ba la buhai shnong; ka jaka rep” (SINGH, N 1920: 382), a place tended by resident people for the cultivation of vegetables. ka kper (Khasi; noun) or ”ka ky-pér” (OLDHAM, T 1854 / 1984 appendix C: lxvi), a garden (SINGH, N 1906: 46; SINGH, N 1920: 198; BLAH, E 2007: 114). ka kper soh (Khasi; noun), orchard (BLAH, E 2007: 206). NOTE 2: Some Khasi names of popular citrus fruits are soh kwit (citron), soh jew (sour fruit, lime), soh jalia (small lime), soh jyllih (lime fruit of very good quality obtained from Jowai), soh long (lemon), soh mad (kind of citron with rind and leaves of very agreeable sweet smell), soh mynggor (shaddok or pomel), soh myndong (common lime), soh myntra (another name for –> soh ñiamtra), soh ñiangriang (lemon kind of a sweetish taste), soh ñiamtra (orange), soh pai (looks like a lime but with sweetish taste). Cfr. BHATTACHARYA, S C (1956): Classification of citrus fruits of Assam.- (Delhi: Indian Council of Agricultural Research). NOTE 3: Chiehruphi village road fork (±20 m) 25°12'36”N: 92°22'22”E: 920 m asl. NOTE 4: Krem Umkhluh near (unidentified precision error) 25°12'26”N: 92°22'15”E (Jarratt A R 1998.03.06 GPS).