INTRODUCTION ill (0) fura maxim):- G) Parbatat dhau, garat mau, Bapekar tiri nai, Putekar othara bau. Bara hat jal khan, Tera hat phata, Mach marili bapar beta, Rau barali saraki jai, Puthi khaliha pahe pahe ray. (ii) (iii) (iv) Save bole bhala bhala, Mai maron othar jala, Hati datar ru Suruj uthe pua. Hati Brindavan eri guapat khai, Tini prasang kari narakak jai. 2. Earliest written relic of the Assamese Language. The Assamese words derived from Sanskrit, though number about 90% of the whole, throw no light upon the ancient condition of the Assamese language prior to the 13th century A.D.. the earliest time to which any extant Assamese composition can safely be attributed. The earliest Assamese words appearing in any written record are to be found in the copper-plates of Kamarupa, so far discovered, of the period between the 7th and 12th centuries A.D, I give below a list of such words. | Ani (=name of a man)। Amva (= mango) Occurs in the Guakuchi plate of Indrapala (11th century A.D.). It was the name of a mar then. It is so even now in Assam. Occurs in the Nowgong plate of Balavarma (1oth century A.D.), and in the Sualkuchi plate of Ratnapal (11th century AD.) in the form of khodamva. The Sanskrit word for it is amrah (= mango). The modern Assamese form of the word is an (= mango). Occurs in the NoWgong plate of Balavarma (10th century AD) Modern Assamese word is also ali and means a dam or embankment across a rice-field. The Sanskrit word ali means a line or dike. The meaning has changed in Assamese Ali (=dam in rice feld)
