Today
while sitting in front of my computer with a cup of tea I stumbled upon a
picture of Chirmikh (my grandmother used
to call it that way) while working on
the net. I often annoy my knowledge while having sips of tea in front of the
computer. Come to Chirmikh . My grandmother used to spin the chirmikh in
her pupils to remove foreign material
from her eyes. Often while having tea sitting in front of
the computer, I satiate my hunger for knowledge, then do the rest of the work.
Much
ado about nothing,come to the term.
I found information about it in Wikipedia on
the net and also came to know that in Rajasthan adjoining our Haryana, it is
known as Chirmi, a folk song by its name is also prevalent there.
In Rajasthan, India, Chirmi song is associated with this plant. A
married girl is climbing on Chirmi plant waits for her father.
In song:
The first lines are चिरमी रा डाला चार (chirmi ra dalaa char). In the song, the married girl is
saying "my chirmi tree is very innocent. I climbed on the
tree to see coming my father but my jeth (husband 's elder
brother) also climbed up on the tree then chirmi tree 's branches urned broken.
That married girl requests her jeth to get down from chirmi and saying "My
father is coming rode on horse and brother is riding on a camel. The horse is
decorated with ghoongra (small bells) and the camel with loom (a
type of decorative threads). The small bells gets rusted and the decorative
threads gets dirt. So I will keep those bells in a purse and hang those threads
on a hanger. I will wash those bells with curd and
dust out those decorative threads.
https://www.youtube.com/
(chirmi song)
There is
also evidence that this plant has significant economic value to the traditional Zulu people, due to the fact that it is a form of
income for Zulu people that make and sell crafts that were made from the seeds
of this plant.
Abrus precatorius beans (also known as rosary peas or jequirity beans) colloquially
known as chirmikh in Haryana and chirmi in Rajasthan. are shiny, scarlet-red
seeds with a black spot. Other less common varieties can come as a white seed
with a black eye or a black seed with a white eye. ... precatorius plant have
been used as home remedies to treat certain illnesses.
Source chirmi
Unit of measure
The seeds
of Abrus precatorius are very consistent in weight, even under
different moisture conditions due to the water-impermeable seed-coat. Formerly
Indians used these seeds to weigh gold using a measure called a Ratti,
where 8 Ratti = 1 Masha; 12 Masha = 1 Tola (11.6 Grams).
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