liv। authors are not to be found in them. In all probablip they were written by the court soribes. From a bareful study of their style their dates can be ascertained with a certain, degree of precision. They were written in ourrent prose and the ancient style is quite different from the modern, and one can be easily distinguished from the other in the older ones the style was & conversational one, and the sen- tences were simple, but in the later productions & more literary style seems to have been introduced, and compound sentences seem to have replaced the old simple style, ৪. WaAT DOES ASSAMESE ow To BENGAl? | The Assamese language owes very little to the Bengali language. As has already been stated its Sanskrit came to it directly from Mid-India, and not through Bengali. Before the occupation of the British the Bengalis had very little access to the Province, and the communication between Bengal and Assam was extremely difficult. Assam had an independent and self-contained government from time immemorial, and in no period of history both the countries were governed by the same monarch. It is true that in ancient time the boundaries of Assam ৪xtended as far as Karatoya, and included a large slice of the land now called Bengal, but the seat of the government | 1 For a critical examination of the Buranjit of A#Bam, a Prof. 8. R, Bhuyan i) No light an Magal India from A Source, published in four part in the Islam Cultu, Hyderabad, Decen, for July, 1984 to july, ig9; and (4Ads Historical Ltter &rs in der Historical adorig for Beptober, 1888-, K, B. | There at several instance of Agam and Bengal, or at least portion of Bengal, being under the same sovereign, Samudragupta's umpira pridently extended over Bonal and Assam, and so did that a faodharman of the Mandagor Inscription. After the dh of Sanka Narendragp, mperor Farhardhan hondad or humanvas to his friend and ally kump Bhaskarran, Ring of kamrup Harshadeva, tahs of Rjympt " pmng from the sea of Bhadot" consort of Jayale It, a Lichche king of Nepal-ww the lord at Gauda, dra, Kalage, and aoal if larshadev aking of marupa, a most fely he wa, ther big higmony ed. beyond the limits of his own ingdoms, K. B..
