A History of Assam c11.9
A History of Assam c11.9
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∗ The Deodhāis or Ahom priests identify all their principal deities with gods of the Hindu pantheon. It is impossible now to say when they first did this, but it may have been long before the Ahom conquest of Assam. Aryan princes, as we have already seen, found their way to Further India at a very early date and took the Hindu mythology with them. The word Lengdon means "one-powerful," i.e., The Almighty.