( Takeo Province )
Phnom Chiso ( Chiso mountain ) is in Rovieng commune, Samrong district Takeo Province. There is a medium, ancient temple with good order and appropriate map of it which is called Phnom Chiso temple by lots of people. Through the tale the people told from that time on that there was a king named Soryatevesa who reigned for a long time build a royal palace near the foot of the mountain, Phnom Chiso, with big, large pond called Tonle Om in the east.
This royal residence was in the forest which was called Saen Pouvaeng forests. After constructing royal palace, the king celebrated the ceremony of improving hair of his son. The splendid ceremony was help by presence of Brahman and old people who came to give wishes to his son one after another. At that time, there was an old Brahman as presiding the celebration came to give three wishes which were different from others.
1. Have strength as ants do.
2. Have courage as the ghosts do.
3. Have great braveness as women do
When the king finished listening to the old Brahman, he got furious with Brahman, immediately. But Brahman asked for making a direct experiment to make the king understand. The king agreed on the request. For the first wish, " Have strength as ants do ", the Brahman ordered a figure of human body to be made of iron and asked a person to try carrying it but that person could not carry it at all.
Then the Brahman took a needle which was as big as an ant and put to be gathered by the ant after he painted with honey. Suddenly, an ant carried the piece of needle away. So, the Brahman told the king, " This is the strength as ants. " The second wish, the Brahman ordered seven unusually-dead bodies to be buried in rows, who died of giving birth, snake biting, attacking with horns of buffalo, lightning, falling off the tree, drowning, and suicide of hanging by the neck, away from the village. He asked for beautiful, silver bowl to be brought and buried there between each corps. He also asked for having squeezed-banana-leaf plates, wrapped-around banana-leaf-plates, Choeurng Krum banana leaf plates, Pig-nose-shaped, banana-leaf Plates, arranged on the treasure buried at the ghost heads side, with red and white rice, pig head, and a crucified chicken. At night, the Brahman asked soldiers who wanted the buried silver water bowls to dig and take them. No one dared going to take them. That was the having courage as the ghosts.
As for the third wish " Have great braveness as women do " was experimented like this: At first invite a poor person and tell him " You are a very poor and lamentable person. If I command you to kill your wife in next three days I will appoint you as a high-ranking official. Do you agree? " The man thought carefully and replied, " I cannot do that because my wife has been with me and shared sorrow, happiness, and poorness together for a long time. I cannot forget this. Another thing is that she is very gentle with me that is why I do not dare to kill her. "
When he heard that he let the man go back home. Next day, the Brahman told soldiers to invite his wife secretly. When she arrived the Brahman asked her immediately. He said, " Your husband is very poor and you cannot depend on him in the future, too. So, I request you secretly that if you dare to kill your husband in next three days I will regard you lawfully as my wife and give all valuable things to you. " She kept quiet and said nothing. Having seen this, the Brahman asked to have the case thought and came back here the following day. In the morning she came with the answer, in front of the Brahman and the king, " I agree with you to do that I have no hope in my husband. "
As soon as she finished answering, the Brahman turned to the king and said, " your Majesty, this is the proof to show about having courage as women do. " The king appointed the Brahman as the scholar after he understood everything and agreed to give what the Brahman wished. So at that time, the Brahman asked for permission to build a hermitage for Brahman on the mountain top near this royal palace. By wanting to pay gratitude, the king agreed on the proposal of the Brahman and appointed him as the head instructor.
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