Tharon

[1] It is in this month that once the Meitei prince Ngangoi Yoimongpa entrapped his quarry, a big deer and also Sarathemba, the young Mayang could round up enough number of games for a ritual festival.

As a part of the test, disguised as a dead ox, He floated down the stream of the Kurum Ching rising from Kangla, the ancient capital.

[1] So, it is called the cold month of Poinu during which the golden hued ears of the paddy crop, the very form of a goddess as it sustains the species, droop soon to be reaped in handfuls by the bent sickle with seven hundred and sixty-one notches.

The paddies are said to be thrashed and winnowed by strong young men after the piled-up rice being constantly turned over with a wooden shovel.

Later, the grains are described as collected in big baskets with attached handles and carried to the royal granary.

[1] After the harvest, Kings used to perform religious rites and rituals dedicated to Phouoibi, the ancient Meitei goddess of agriculture, crops, fertility, grains, harvesting, paddy, rice and wealth, showing her reverence as well as gratitude for providing the mankind their foods.