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Sarama 34 THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE ASAMIYA LANGUAGE them in a fort. The Aryans did not send a thundering ultimatum or undertake an immediate expedition instead they sent a detective cum diplomat to find out the cows and persuade the Panis to return them without a fight. This detective cum diplomat was Sarama, a lady. She eventually finds out the place where the cows were kept in capti. vity. She does not deliver an ultimatum; the Aryans were obviously not held in awe by the Panis. "Whea Sarami refers to the invincible powers of Indra, the Panis retort: "Let him come here: we shall give him the high post of the cowherd." ("Atha gabi Gopatiri bhavati," R. X, 108, 3) again requests the Panls to return the cows without an appeal to the ams. The Panis reply: "Do you really think that any body would ever return such booty without a fight? Remember that our weapons The Aryans do not appear to have engendered a terror in the mind everthrow them and the Asvins are prayed in the Rigveda to foil confinement of the celestial waters is compared to the confinement of the Aryan cows by the Panls. The incident must have been a common one, otherwise it would not have beeome standard of comparison". (Presidential Address, 22nd Session, Indian History Congress, Gauhati). Hence it may be presumed that the Mediterraneans were never at pence with the Vedie Aryans even abroad, whence Naraka is nown to have been killed by a stratagem of the latter, decidedly for his anti- Brihmanistic ways. We are not positively informed as to what cult the Kalita prierts really presched or practised, but we may be sure that like their Mediterranean ancestors they were "non-sacrificing and non- worshippers of gods of the Vedie Aryans even like the Early Iranians who despised the Vedie gods. It appears that the Kalites were no sup porters of home or fire-worship, at any time, but neither they possibly observed the pije or flower-dedication ceremony said to have origi nated from the Dravidian people. We find that the Varman sovereigas down through the Psla lines of Asam professed Salvis, some of them like Bhiskar having some Buddhistie leanings and all of them sharing some bias for Valsavism, Vipu or "Nariyandey being their origin as also observed by Yuan Ching and finally the faith of the line culminating in Vainavism pure and simple as is proved by the last epigraphie record of king Dharma Pal. On the comparative contribution of the Mediterraneans and Nordics, B. S. Guha says: The Pale-Mediterraneans probably brought pottery megalithle culture with its related fertility rites and human serta fice, and it seems likely that they were responsible for introducing matriarchal institutions and high positions of women in peninsular India. The Mediterranean race proper, as far as can be judged, deve