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THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE ASAMIYA LANGUAGE "The cause of this lies in the fact that their fame and prestige had grown enormously on account of the signal honour done to Bhaskar Varm and the long rule which they enjoyed over Gauda, Udra, Kalinga and Kolala." (SH.K., III, 29-30). Basu suggests a different chronology of the Bhauma rulers after Bhaskar Varma as Jayatunga, Avanti Varma, Sri Haradeva, Kheman karg, Sivakara, Subhankara, Sivakara, based on inscriptions found beyond sam. So he argues that Harsa Varma or Sri Harisa and Hargadeva cannot be one and the same person. He continues: "After the death of Srl Hara (in 732-33), Jayanta, styled Adisuta, conquered Gauda and the successor of the Bhauria king Sri Hanzadeva retired to Osissa. The Neulpur plate of Subhankaradeva of Orissa who was known as a scion of the Bhaumn dynasty, issued in the alghth year of his rule, records the front of land to Brahmans from Uttara Toshali... The Bhauma dynasty ruled over Orissa from the eighth century to the 13th ceptury of the Christian era. A large number of stone and copper plate inscriptions were left by them". (Ibid). In antipation of further light on the subject that suggested chronology may be regarded as merely tentative, but the statement that Bhauma rulers of Kimarüpa ruled over Orissa until about the thirteenth century may not be called in question as the inscriptions found in many places in Orissa contain accounts of the rulers of Kimarüpa for over four hundred years. The Bengali era commencing about 583 A.D. really commemorates the year of Bhaskar Varma's aseension to the throne of Kimaropa, for his being overlord of Karna-Suvama. The copper plate inscription of Raja Lokanatha was recovered from the district of Tippers that formed a part of Samatata over which he must have ruled. It is claimed that the surnames of Brahmanas men. tioned in the Nidhanpur charter and the Tippera copper plate of king Lokanatha are peculiar to Eastern India and are now in vogue only among the community of Brahmans and Kayasthas or Kshatriyas whose ancestors migrated the western provinces or to the Deccan... A num- ber of Bathmans fom Srihatin or Chandrapur, within the territorial limits of Kamarupa, founded the Nagara Brahman community in Gujarat. It is therefore significant that Yulin Chwing styled Bhiskar Varmá as a Brahman by caste": "Varma" is really recognised as one of the 14 Amushyalinas or Sarmans of Nligar Brahmans of Gujarat, and it is natural to suppose that Varmas of Kamarupa or Eastern India were originally of the same stock as those of Gujarat. It is interesting to note in this connection that one "Parama Bhatta raka Maharajadhirija Parameswara Patola deva-sahi Sri Nava- Surendraditya Nandideva", probably connected with the well-known Hindu Sahi dynasty ruling in Kabul, about the time of Bhaskar Varma