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 14 THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE ASAMYA LANGUAGE namely Balsa, Batsya, Bharadwal, Krsnatreya and Parbara were in- dented by the then king of Tripura for the performance of a great sajna, to be subsequently settled bere. They, in their turn, sot Bröhanans of still another five gotras, namely Katyayana, Katyapa, Maudgalya, Svarna-Kauilla and Gautama to become their companions and neigh- bours. The Brahmans of these ten gotras are known in that locality as Vaidikas or Sampradayilea. They pride in having such illustrious por song as Raghunath Siroment in the Katyayana and Caitanyadeva in Batsa gotra. Any way almost all of these ten gotras are fully repre- sented among the donees, of the grant of Bhaskar Varma Not only of these ten gotras alone, but Vedic Brahmans of other groups now settling in Bengal proper may probably be the descendants of the donees of this sprant. As earlier noted, there can be no denying the fact that when Bengal became divorced of Buddhist Influence, no few families of Brahmans came here as colonists and cd. The point of Immigration of Brahmans to Bengal from Kanyakubja (Kanauj) has now been proved to be baseless. The similarity of the title "Swami" of most of the donees of Bhaskar Varma's grant with that of many Brahmans of Madras may not mislead us to think of their immigration from Madras (Kamrup Sasaniwali, pp. 8-9 ff.). At least fifteen most common surnames of the Brahmans and Katri- yos (Kayasthas) of modern Bengal namely (1) Basu, (2) Ghor (3) Dev, (4) Datta, (5) Dam, (6) Sen, (7) Som, (8) Palit, (0) Kar, (10) Kunda, (11) Nag. (12) Das, (13) Nandi, (14) Pal, (15) Mitra are deriv- ed from the surnames of the Kömarüpa donees of Bhaskar Varma's grant of c. 610 A.D. So also fourteen principal surnames of present Nagar Brahmans of Gujarat are said to agree with these surnames found both in the Nidhanpur charter and the Tippera copper plate inseription of the feudatory ruler Lokanath of c. 669 A.D. (S.H.K., p. 180). So also is the case with the Neulpur copper plate Inscription of king Subhan- kara Deva of Orissa of the latter half of the eighth century. It is earlier stated how and why Brahmans in large number gave up their threads and profession and took to trading etc., and also how a similar number of Brühmans and other high caste people came to settle in Bengal when it became purged of Buddhist influence. Thus it is that we find most of the surnames of the donces of the Nidhanpur charter, for instance, highly prevalent mainly among the Brahmans and Kayas- thas of modern Bengal. The Conans of India, 1931, Vol. 1, Part I (Report) by J. H. Hutton and part III (Ethnographical) by B. S. Guha are two inost outstanding records on the origins of races of India determined by these latest authorities. Guha opines that the Nagar Brahmans of