A History of Assam c12.103

c12.103

Lakhau lies at what was then the confluence of the Dihing and the Brahmaputra. At the period in question, the latter river flowed down the course of what is now called the Lohit river, along the north of the Mājuli island, while the Dihing followed the present channel of the Brahmaputra to the south of it, and, after receiving the waters of the Disang and the Dikhu, united with the Brahmaputra at its western extremity. At a still earlier period the Dihing is believed to have flowed into the Brahmaputra further east than the Buri Dihing does now. At that time, according to native traditions, the Dikhu had an independent course as far as Kājalimukh, part of which still survives in the Mājuli as the Tuni river, and part in Nowgong, as the Kallang.