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This was the earliest phase of Aryanisation to this land
when the feudalism though not have gained its ground but still
the on going process has duly increased the adoptability of Vedic
culture among the tribal commoners. At the same time, some of
the tribal magical elements also seem to have found their
incorporation in the Vedic rituals and they all became the essential
the item of so called Brahmanical rites. For centuries this process
of assimilation was continued which on one hand strengthen the
dominancy of Brahmanical culture in this tribal dominated land
and on the other it also concentrate the Tantric atmosphere of
actual practices of the Vamacara procedure.
With all these development, the actual phase of
feudalism was however started only after the 5th century A.D. when
the influence of Kamrupa over north eastern India, after the fall of the
imperial power of the Guptas caused the migration of a large number of
72 brahman to Kamrupa. The Kamrupi kings have provided the best
possible support to those migrated Brahman, in other word, the
kings adopted a systematic policy (as it revealed to the Nidhanpur
Copper Plate inscription) for the settlement of those Brahman in
the kingdom by gift of land in the shape of an agrahara to further their
religious pursuits.
73 By the time of 5th century A.D. the socio-religious
condition of Kamrupa was also changed with increasing popularity
of Brahmanical culture in this region. Already the peoples became
aware of these Brahmanical rites and rituals in which the aboriginal
72.
73.
Barua, B.K. : A Cultural History of Assam, 1986, pp.116-17.
Ibid, p.117.