Khagendra officially named World's Shortest Man on 18th birthdayBy Mail Foreign Service

နီေပါသားေလး ခါဂ်င္ဒရာ ကမာၻ ့အပုဆံုးလူသားအၿဖစ္တရား၀င္
စံခ်ိန္တင္ၿပီ...



အသက္ ၁၈ ႏွစ္ၿပည္ ့ၿပီၿဖစ္လုိ ့ဒီကမာၻမွာ ကြ်န္ေတာ္အပုဆံုး လို ့တရာ၀င္ လက္မွတ္ရပါၿပီ....

Certified: Khagendra Thapa Magar has been crowned the world's smallest man on his 18th birthday

တစ္ၿခားေသာ အသက္ ၁၈ ႏွစ္အရြယ္ဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္ေလးမ်ားကဲ ့သို ့ပင္ နီေပါနုိင္ငံသားေလး ခါဂ်င္ဒရာ
သာပါးမဂါ တစ္ေယာက္ ၎၏အသက္ ၁၈ ႏွစ္ၿပည္ ့ေမြးေန ့တြင္ ေမြးေန ့လက္ေဆာင္မ်ားႏွင္ ့လာေရာက္
ႏွဳတ္ဆက္သူမ်ားရွိေနခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

ေဖေဖေပးတဲ ့ဗံုကေလးတီးလို ့ေမြးေန ့ပဲြကုိ ဆင္ႏႊဲပါတယ္...
Big day: Khagendra beats a drum his father bought him as an 18th birthday gift

သူအႀကဳိက္ဆံုး၊ အႏွစ္သက္ဆံုးလက္ေဆာင္ကေတာ ့ဖခင္ၿဖစ္သူ ရပ္ပ္ဘဟာဒူ ေပးတဲ ့ဗံုကေလးတစ္လံုးပဲ
ၿဖစ္ၿပီး နီေပါရုိးရာအက ကုိထုိဗံုသံစည္းခ်က္နဲ ့အညီက ၿပီး ဓါတ္ပံုအရုိက္ခံေနခဲ ့တဲ ့ဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္ကေလး
ရဲ ့၀မ္းသာေပ်ာ္ရႊင္မွဳကေတာ ့ရုိးရွင္းလွပါတယ္...
ဒါေပမယ္ ့သူ ့ကုိရုိက္ကူးခဲ့တဲ ့ဓါတ္ပံုမ်ားကေတာ ့မိသားစုအမွတ္တစ္ရ ထားဖုိ ့ထက္ကုိ ပုိပါတယ္...



သိပ္ေတာ ့မလြယ္လွဘူးဗ် ေနာ္...သူ ့အရပ္ကုိအတိအက်တုိင္းရတာ...

No little task: Khagendra's height is measured by Dr. Hom Neupane (left) and Guinness Book of World Records representative Marco Frigatti

ခါဂ်င္ဒရာေလးရဲ ့အသက္ ၁၈ႏွစ္ၿပည္ ့ၿပီး လူႀကီးၿဖစ္တဲ ့ေန  ့ဟာ သာမန္မဟုတ္ပဲ သမုိင္းမွတ္တမ္း၀င္မယ္ ့
ေန ့တစ္ေန ့ၿဖစ္တာမုိ ့နုိင္ငံတစ္ကာမွ သတင္းအဖဲြ ့မ်ားဟာ နီေပါနုိင္ငံၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္ ခတၱမႏၵဴၿမဳိ ့ရဲ ့အေနာက္
ဖက္ ၁၂၅ မုိင္ကြာတဲ ့ပုိကာရာ အရပ္ကသူ ့ရဲ ့သာမန္လက္လုပ္လက္စားအိမ္ကေလးဆီကုိ ေရာက္ရွိလာေန
ခဲ ့ႀကပါတယ္...
သူ ့ဘ၀ရဲ ့အဓိကက်တဲ ့ေန ့မွာ အထူးအေရးအႀကီးဆံုးဧည္ ့သည္ပုဂၢဳိလ္မ်ားကေတာ ့သူ ့အသက္ ၁၄ ႏွစ္က
တည္းက ထုိသူမ်ားကုိ ေမွ်ာ္လင္ ့ေစာင္ ့ဆုိင္းေနခဲ ့၇တဲ ့ဆရာ၀န္မ်ားႏွင္ ့ကမာၻ ့ထူးဆန္းမွတ္တမ္း ဂီးနက္စ္
အဖဲြ ့ကတာ၀န္ရွိသူကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားပဲၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...
သူေလးရဲ ့အရပ္ဟာ ၂၆.၄ လက္မ ( ၂ေပနဲ ့၂.၄ လက္မ ) ရွိေႀကာင္း တုိင္းတာအတည္ၿပဳခဲ ့ၿပီးေနာက္သူ ့
ကုိ ကမာၻ ့အရပ္အပုဆံုးလူသားအၿဖစ္ ေႀကၿငာခဲ ့တာမုိ ့ သူစိတ္ကူးယဥ္ေမွ်ာ္လင္ ့ခဲ ့တဲ ့အရာဟာ အမွန္
တစ္ကယ္ၿဖစ္လာခဲ ့ရပါၿပီ....

" ကြ်န္ေတာ္စိတ္ေတြလွဳပ္ရွားၿပီး ေပ်ာ္လည္းအရမ္းေပ်ာ္ပါတယ္..." လုိ ့ေမြးစကကိုယ္အေလးခ်ိန္ ၁.၃ ေပါင္
သာရွိတဲ ့ခါဂ်င္ဒရာေလးကဆုိပါတယ္...
" ကြ်န္ေတာ္ကေတာ ့ကုိယ္ကုိယ္ကုိ လူပုကေလးတစ္ေယာက္လုိ ့မၿမင္ေတာ ့ပါဘူး၊ အခုလူႀကီးတစ္ေယာက္
ၿဖစ္ေနပါၿပီ... အခုရတဲ ့( ကမာၻ ့အပုဆံုးလူသားဘဲြ ့ဟာ ) ကြ်န္ေတာ္လူႀကီးတစ္ေယာက္ၿဖစ္ေႀကာင္း သက္
ေသၿပၿပီး မိဘမ်ားႏွင္ ့ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ့အတြက္အိမ္ေကာင္းေကာင္းတစ္လံုးေလာက္ ရနုိင္ေစလိမ္ ့မယ္လို ့ထင္
ပါတယ္..." လုိ ့သူကဆက္ၿပီးေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

ကြ်န္ေတာ္ အကမင္းသား....

Having a little dance: Khagendra boogies to the sound of his new drum in front of the world's press



တစ္ကယ္ ့ကေလးငယ္တစ္ေယာက္လုိပါပဲ...

You do get many of those to the pound: Khagendra is weighed during his official assessment by Guinness World Records

သူ ့အရပ္နဲ ့ယွဥ္ၿပီးႀကည့္မယ္ဆုိယင္ ဒီလို...ဒီလုိ ရွိပါတယ္...

ယခု ခါဂ်င္ဒရာေလးရဲ ့သတင္းဟာ ကမာၻ ့ထူးဆန္းမွတ္တမ္း ဂီးနစ္ အဖဲြ ့က ကုိလံဘီယာနုိင္ငံသား အက္ဒ
၀ပ္နီနုိဟာနန္ဒက္ဇ္ ကုိ ကမာၻ ့အပုဆံုးလူသားအၿဖစ္ ေႀကၿငာအၿပီး ရက္သတၱပါတ္ငါးပါတ္အႀကာမွာထြက္
ေပၚခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္လုိ ့ထုိလူပုေလးအေနနဲ ့သက္တမ္းအတုိဆံုးလူပုစံခ်ိန္ရွင္ၿဖစ္ခဲ ့ရရွာပါတယ္...
သူ ့ရဲ ့လူပုေလးစံခ်ိန္ကုိ ဆံုးရွဳံးခဲ ့ရၿပီလို ့ေၿပာၿပခဲ ့တဲ ့အခါ ဟာနန္ဒက္ဇ္ က " ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ့အေနနဲ ့ကာလတုိ
ေတာင္းစြာ ကမာၻ ့လူပုေလးစံခ်ိန္ရွင္ၿဖစ္ခဲ ့ရေပမယ္ ့အလြန္ပဲ၀မ္းသာဂုဏ္ယူမိပါတယ္..." လို ့ေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့
ပါတယ္...
" စံခ်ိန္ေတြဆုိတာကေတာ ့တစ္ခုၿပီးတစ္ခု အခ်ဴိးခံႀကရမွာပါပဲ... ဒါေႀကာင္ ့ဒီစံခ်ိန္ဘဲြ ့ထူးကုိ ခါဂ်င္ဒရာကုိ
ေက်ေက်နပ္နပ္၊ ၀မ္းေၿမာက္စြာနဲ ့ေပးေပါတယ္...တစ္ေန ့က်ယင္ကြ်န္ေတာ္တုိ ့ႏွစ္ဦးလည္း လူခ်င္းဆံုေတြ ့
ခ်င္ပါေသးတယ္..." လုိ ့သူကဆုိပါတယ္....
ခါဂ်င္ဒရာရဲ ့မိသားစုဟာ ထုိလူပုေလးဘဲြ ့ကုိရဖုိ ့ႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာႀကဳိးစားေနခဲ ့ႀကတာၿဖစ္ေပမယ္ ့ထုိစဥ္ကာ
လမ်ားက ၎အေနႏွင္ ့အသက္ ၁၈ ႏွစ္မၿပည္ ့ခင္အရပ္ရွည္လာနုိင္ဖြယ္ရာရွိတာမုိ ့ၿငင္းဆန္ၿခင္းခံခဲ ့ႀကရ
တာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...

အသက္ ၁၈ ႏွစ္မၿပည္ ့မီအႀကဳိည ဧည္ ့ခံပဲြမွ ကမာၻ ့ဧရာမ လူပုကေလး...

Small portions: Khagendra and his family enjoyed a celebratory meal the night before he turned 18 

 ထမင္းစားယင္း တူတူပုန္းလို ့ရတယ္...

Peek-a-boo: The 26-inch 18-year-old can barely see over the top of the table

" ကြ်န္ေတာ္တုိ ့ဟာ ခါဂ်င္ဒရာကုိ သိေနခဲ ့တာအတန္ႀကာခဲ ့ေပမယ္ ့ယခုကမာၻ ့အပုဆံုးလူသားအၿဖစ္ မွတ္
တမ္းတင္ဖုိ ့ကေတာ ့သူ ့အသက္ ၁၈ ႏွစ္ၿပည္ ့တဲ ့အထိေစာင္ ့ခဲ့ရပါတယ္...
ခါဂ်င္ဒရာကုိ လြန္ခဲ ့တဲ ့ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီလ ကအရပ္တုိင္းခဲ ့စဥ္ကထက္ သူ ့အရပ္ရွည္လာခဲ ့ပါေသးတယ္...
ဒါေပမယ္ ့လည္း သူဟာလက္ရွိဘဲြ ့ပိုင္ရွင္ နီနုိထက္ အရပ္ပုေနေသးတာမုိ ့အသက္ရွင္လွ်က္ အရပ္အပုဆံုး
လူသားအၿဖစ္ေႀကၿငာနုိင္ဖုိ ့သူ ့ရဲ ့ေမြးေန ့ပဲြမွာ အထူးအစီအစဥ္အေနနဲ ့သူ ့ဇာတိၿမဳိ ့ုိ လာေရာက္ခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္
ပါတယ္..." လုိ ့ကမာၻ ့ထူးဆန္းမွတ္တမ္းအဖဲြ ့ကပုဂၢဳိလ္ မာကုိဖရီဂတ္တီ ကဆုိပါတယ္...


ေၿပာရလွ်င္ေတာ ့တီဗီမွာ ကရာေတးသိုင္းကစားတာေတြႀကည္ ့ရတာႏွစ္ၿခဳိက္တဲ ့ခါဂ်င္ဒရာေလးဟာ ယမန္
ေန ့အထိ ကမာၻ ့အပုဆံုးဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္ဆံုတဲ ့ဘဲြ ့ကေလးနဲ ့တင္ေက်နပ္ႏွစ္သိမ္ ့ေနခဲ ့ရတာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္..
သူအလုိခ်င္ဆံုး ကမာၻ ့လူပုေလးဘဲြ ့ကုိ ကုိလံဘီယာက အကသမားေလးၿဖစ္တဲ ့အရပ္ ၂၇ လက္မသာရွိတဲ ့
ဟာနန္ဒက္ဇ္ ကုိထုိဘဲြ ့ထူးေပးခဲ ့ၿပီးေတာ ့ေပါ ့...
လြန္ခဲ ့တဲ ့ငါးႏွစ္ကတည္းကခါဂ်င္ဒရာရဲ ့ဆရာ၀န္ေတြကေတာ ့ ကုိယ္အေလးခ်ိန္ ၁၂ ေပါင္သာရွိတဲ ့ဒီဆယ္
ေက်ာ္သက္ကေလးဟာ သံုးႏွစ္သား အရြယ္ကေလးငယ္တစ္ေယာက္ရဲ ့ခႏၶာကိုယ္အရြယ္အစားသာရွိေနခဲ ့
တာပါလုိ ့ဆုိခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
" သူ ့ရဲ ့ခႏၶာကုိယ္အခ်ဴိးအစားဟာ ကေလးငယ္တစ္ဦးနဲ ့အတူတူလုိပဲၿဖစ္ၿပီး သူကိုယ္တုိင္လည္း ကေလး
တစ္ေယာက္လုိ ေနထုိင္ၿပဳမူစဥ္းစားေတြးေခၚပါတယ္..." လုိ ့ဟမ္ပရာဆပ္နယူးပန္း ကေၿပာပါတယ္...

သူ ့အေမနွင္ ့အတူ မိသားစုဆုိင္ေရွ ့တြင္...

Man at work: Khagendra, pictured here with his mother Dhan Maya, helps out at his parents' fruit shop

သာမန္လက္လုပ္လက္စားဘ၀ မိသားစုေနအိမ္ၿခံ၀င္းတြင္...
At home: Khagendra sits in the garden with his mother at their home in Pokhara, Nepal

သူ ့ရဲ ့ညီကေလးကေတာ ့အသက္ ၁၃ ႏွစ္အရြယ္မွာ ပံုမန္အရပ္အေမာင္းရွိေနၿပီး သူ ့က်မွ ဘာေႀကာင္ ့အ
ရပ္မရွည္လာရသလဲဆုိတာကုိေတာ ့အသီးအႏွံေရာင္းသူၿဖစ္တဲ ့ဖခင္အေနနဲ ့မရွင္းၿပတတ္ေအာင္ၿဖစ္ခဲ ့ရ
ပါတယ္...

ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ့ဆႏၵၿပည္ ့၀ခဲ ့ရပါၿပီ...
Job done: Khagendra sits with the President of Khagendra Foundation, which campaigned to get him recognised as world's shortest man

မိဘမ်ားကုိ ကူညီစရာမလုိတဲ ့အားလပ္ခ်ိန္မွာ အကအဖဲြ ့တစ္ခုရဲ ့အဖဲြ ့၀င္ၿဖစ္တဲ ့ခါဂ်င္ဒရာေလးဟာ ယခုရ
ရွိခဲ ့တဲ ့ဘဲြ ့ထူးအသစ္နဲ ့အတူတဲြလာေတာ ့မယ္ ့ေအာင္ၿမင္ေက်ာ္ႀကားမွဳ၊ တင္းစာမ်က္ႏွာ၊ ရုပ္ရွင္ဗီဒီယုိမ်ား
မွာပါ၀င္နုိင္လာဖြယ္ရွိမွဳမ်ားအတြက္ အဆင္သင္ ့ၿဖစ္ေနပါၿပီ....
လာမည္ ့ႏွစ္မွာေတာ ့သူဟာ နီေပါနုိင္ငံရဲ ့ခရီးသြားႏွစ္အတြက္ အစိုးရကခန္ ့အပ္တဲ ့စည္းရံုးလွဳံ ေဆာ္ေရး

ကိုယ္စားလွယ္အၿဖစ္ေဆာင္ရြက္ရေတာ ့မွာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...
ယခင္က ထုိေနရာမွာေဆာင္ရြက္ရသူမ်ားကေတာ ့ရုပ္ရွင္ေႀကၿငာမ်ားတြင္ အခေႀကးေငြယူကာရုိက္ကူးသ
ရုပ္ေဆာင္ၿခင္း၊ တစ္ၿခားစီးပြားေရးဆုိင္ရာအႏုပညာလုပ္ငန္းမ်ားလုပ္ေဆာင္ၿခင္းႏွင္ ့ကမာၻအဆင္ ့ထင္ေပၚ
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အဂၤလိပ္လုိသတင္းပါ....
Like most teenagers on their 18th birthday, Khagendra Thapa Magar received a variety of gifts and a steady stream of well-wishers.

His favourite present was a toy drum given to him by his father, Rup Bahadur, and the teenager's joy was plain to see as he performed a traditional Nepalese dance to the drum's beat for photographs.
But the snaps were more than just keepsakes for the family album. Khagendra's assent to manhood is a matter of historical record, which is why his birthday party brought the international press to his modest home in Pokhara, a town 125 miles west of Katmandu.
The most important visitors on his big day, however, were some people Khagendra has been waiting for since he was 14 - doctors and officials from Guinness World Records.

After measuring his height - 26.4 inches or 2ft 2.41in - the officials declared him to be the shortest man in the world, confirming a long-held dream for the tiny teen.

'I am very happy and excited,' said Khagendra, who weighed just 1.3 pounds at birth.

'I don’t consider myself to be a small man. I’m a big man.
'I hope that having this title enables me to prove it and get a proper house for me and my family.'
The news comes only five weeks after Guinness World Records recognized Colombia’s Edward 'Nino' Hernandez as the record holder - which makes his reign as world's shortest man the shortest in history.
Hernandez, on being informed that he had lost his title, said: 'I've greatly enjoyed being the shortest man in the world for a while and I have been very proud of it.
'Records will always be broken and I am very happy to pass the title to Khagendra. I hope we can meet one day in person!'

Khagendra's family have campaigned to get him the crown for years but earlier claims to the title were rejected by Guinness because of the possibility he might grow before he reached 18.
Guinness World Records Adjudicator Marco Frigatti said: 'We have known about Khagendra for some time, but have had to wait until he turned 18 before we could consider him for the record of shortest man. 'Khagendra has grown since his last measurement in February, but he is still shorter than Nino, making him the shortest known living man; and to make the announcement here in his hometown on the occasion of his birthday is extra special!'

Until today Khagendra, who enjoys watching karate on TV, had been forced to settle for being named the shortest living teen, with the grand title he so desired in the tiny hands of Hernandez, a dancer from Colombia, who measures a towering 27 inches, comparatively speaking.
Khagendra's doctor for the past five years says the teenager, who weighs 12 pounds, has the body of a three-year-old.
'His body structure is like that of a small child and he also thinks and behaves in that manner,' said Hum Prasad Newpane.
His father, a fruit seller, has no explanation for why Khagendra never grew any taller because his younger brother is a normal height for a boy of 13.
Khagendra, who is part of a dancing troupe when he isn't helping out his parents in their fruit shop, is ready for the media spotlight that will accompany his new title.
He excitedly jumped onto the table and made tea for all the members of the press who arrived at his rented home and told them he wants to make the most of the opportunities that the title brings.
Next year he is to serve as a government-appointed goodwill ambassador as his nation celebrates Visit Nepal Year.
But previous holders of the tile have used the title for personal gains, earning film roles and other acting work, and a level of worldwide celebrity.
The world's littlest man has a big future ahead of him.