Traditional story about Benglam

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Rex Khullar tells a Benglam Story. In this one, Benglam was sitting on a tree with the intention of cutting it down. He cut the the tree trunk he was sitting on and fell to the ground.

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Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi May 2008.

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Rex Khullar tells a Benglam Story. In this one, Benglam was sitting on a tree with the intention of cutting it down. He cut the the tree trunk he was sitting on and fell to the ground.

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1 recording (5 min.)

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Lamkang Language Resource

Annotated texts with accompanying sound files and aligned transcriptions for study of the Lamkang language spoken in India and Myanmar.

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The Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) is a digital archive for source audio, video, and text on the minority languages of South Asia.

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Transcription: Traditional story about Benglam

Transcription of a Benglam story, as told by Rengpu Rex Khullar. Very short story about Benglam acting foolishly: Sitting up in a tree, he saws a branch between himself and the trunk, and falls and breaks his back.

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  • May 2008

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  • Oct. 12, 2018, 9:23 a.m.

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  • Nov. 14, 2020, 2:42 p.m.

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Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi. Traditional story about Benglam, audio recording, May 2008; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1281705/: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Information.

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