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vi the people of Bengal. The Assamese Hindus recognise the authority of the Benares school of Pandits, where the Bengal Hindus submit to the authority of the Nadiya school. Mitakshara was the law which regulated the division of property in Assam, whereas the Dayabhaga was the law of Bengal. | The court language of the Hindu kings of Kamarup was always Sanskrit, and all the businesses of the state used to be transacted in that language. The written language of the people also remained Sanskrit for a very long time; they, however, being cut off from their parent stock and having been confined in a valley their speech gradually changed forms, till at lasit was stereotyped into a separate tongue, This, of course, did not happen in a day or at a particular moment, but the process of change went on and on till at length it gave birth to the Assamese language, a. IT EAREST IrraATURE, PUTEIs, | CHIP Adors, Mes Og The Assamese language, though it existed from a very long time as a separate form of speech, had no written litera- ture till a comparatively recent time. The earliest puthi in the language is supposed to be the aphorisms of Dak, a native of Lehi-dangara village in Barpeta. The date of Dak’s writings has not yet been fxed, but the peouliarity of his language leaves little doubt that it belonged to a time much prior to that of Sankar Deva, the father of Assamese literature, pak's arorisms are more widely diffused and much more popular with the Assamese people than even the writings of Sankar Deva. After Dak's writings come some of the Baraaj puthis. In the beginning of the thirteenth century, the government of the country passed into the hands of the Ahom kings who • introduced. a system of recording the principal events of their reign. At first this