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Sources of Medieval Assam
Literary Sources
Indigenous Literature
- Among the indigenous literature of the medieval period, the Buranjis were the foremost one.
- The Ahoms started a procedure of keeping records of all events of the time in a set of documents called Buranjis.
- Buranji is an Ahom term that translates as ‘a storehouse of knowledge that enlightens the ignorant’. Basically, it is a chronicle dealing with the political events of the period.
- Some of the Buranjis are much bigger in volume covering all the topics related to political history and are called Lai-Lik-Buranji in the Tai Ahom language.
- Other Buranjis are small, narrating a single event only and are called Lit Buranji in Tai Ahom language.
- In Assamese the Lai-Lik-Buranji ...
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