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of India music and dance have a long tradition in Assam. Mythology
states that king Bhagadatta and his companions while representing
Pragjyotishpur in the Rajasuya Yajna organized by great
Yudhisthira of Mahabharata, impressed all with their dance and
musical excellencies; similarly during the time of the arrival of
Hiuen Tsang in Kamrup, King Bhaskarvarman have made an
arrangement to have dance and musical performances on every
evening in respect of the great traveller.
104 103
The devadasi nritya or the dance of the devadasi in
the services of the enshrined deity of a temple is the most popular
and highly talked ancient form of dance, still survived in some
forms or others in many parts of Indian subcontinent. Entangling
this institution with the concept of fertility D. Desai states that-
devadasi are those women who are being dedicated to the temple in the
services of God. In tracing the history of this institution she
again said that at least from the 2nd century B.C, the inscriptional
references are there in central India which further highlighted in
Arthasastra, Meghduta along with other ancient books. About
the prevalences of devadasi institution in Assam, S Rajguru states
that both in the early and medieval period, the customary dance of devadasi
at the time of worship in the Siva temples formed a part of the liturgy.
107 106
. The Tezpur grant of Vanamalavarman states that king himself
rebuilt the large temple of Hatakeshwar to which he dedicated a
102. Rajguru, S.: Medieval Assamese Society, 1988, p.420.
103. Goswami, S. : Bharatiya Nrityakala(Ass), 1963, p.4.
104. Desai, D. : Op-cit, pp.107-108.
105. Ibid, p.107.
106. Rajguru, S.: Op-cit, p.259.
107. Tezpur Grant, v.24.