History of Bagrot: the two Brothers Shoro and Mashoro
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Once upon a time two brothers named Shoro and Mashoro came to this area. The walnut tree we still have here is a relic of Shoro's grandfather and we have kept it as a keepsake. When these two brothers first arrived here, a man from Chilkot married his daughter to Shoro and kept him as his son-in-law. Thus, Shoro settled here, and all the people here are his descendants. In fact, not just this village also the village of Hopay contains Shoro's de-scendants. Together both villages have around 200-250 households, all descendants of the same forefather who settled here more than a thousand years ago. The Bagrot area has been inhabited for a very long time, even longer than the population of Gilgit. At the time of Shoro and Mashoro, a spring used to flow from afar, and water came from there. Now, we have brought water from the upper river. We heard from our elders that when the two brothers came here, they planted two sticks and decided that the one whose stick remained green would stay here, whereas the other would leave. After some years, they returned to see that Shoro's stick was green, so the other brother [Mashoro] left and supposedly settled in Hundur.
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