under the guardianship of god thangjing, khoiriphaba grew up. he made many friends. he was nine years old. he started wrestling (), race, and so on. he was always the champion of all the competitions. this made his friends fell jealous of him. so, one of his friends told him about how he grew up under the care of thangjing. khoriphaba was told that they would not allow him to play with them because he was an inferior god. khoriphaba felt dejected for many days. thangjing noticed it and asked him. khoiriphaba narrated him the incident. so, thangjing decided that khoiriphaba should be sent to his mother without further delaying. he summoned all the 27 friends of khoiriphaba. he asked them to challenge khoiriphaba for wrestling and race championships. none were ready for the challenge. then thangjing asked them about a tug of war in which all of them would stand together at one side and khoiriphaba alone at another side. there was a condition. if they won, they would be the winner. but if khoiriphaba won, they should send khoiriphaba off to his mother's place at haorok konthou, carrying him on a palanquin. the 27 friends accepted the challenge. but all of them got defeated in the hands of khoiriphaba.