probably a mam of Eastern India knew of the tradition as was prevailing in Eastern India . The conclusion necessarily follows that a race of Non-Vedic Aryans who came to settle in India being unable to enter the midland which had been occupied either by the Ve- die-Aryan or some other powerfail race divided them, selves into two parties ; one migrating down the Indus as far and the other party marchin; Eastward along the foot of the Himalays all they reaehed and settled in Kamrupa ( a ) It was these Non-Ved Asia ans who with , them the traditions of the ry Naraka and Bana both adh and to |na and localised these tradi tions in the espeer countries of their adoption. These additions here ubsequently woven into the great Epies th: S০nme very striking points of resemblance in phonetic & vocabulary which of all the Indo-Aryan languages, Assamese alone bears to the languages of N-W and W. India, lends strong support to the above theory. There are also some peculiar points in the Assamese language which may be characterised as Extra-Indian. No other explanation of these peculiarities can be given except that these Non-Vedic Aryans or at least some other Aryans settled in Assam under circumstances in which they some how had escaped the Indian influence. ( a ) Roys Davids also postulates these two lines of Any migration is lis ‘Buddhist India',
