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Volume : III, Issue : VIII, September - 2013 Archaic Indian Rivers And The Kalika Purana : A Profile To A Mercantile History Of Kamrupa Kamal Nayan Patowary Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : :The whole geographical proceeding of the Kalika Purana is dominated by the description of rivers. More than fifty rivers of divergent identities have found their mention in this famous compilation of Kamrupa origin and naturally majority numbers of such references are about the rivers of Assam (Kamrupa). However, the treatise also speaks about the rivers beyond the territories of Assam which remains here as the core concerned of our study. Inspired by the ideal of “nadi stuti' of Rg Veda, the study intends to analyze the aspect behind those references of rivers that in appropriating the propositions regarding the domain or the extensiveness of the mercantile activities of Kamrupa. Accordingly, the study sum ups with some interesting resolutions like a declining tendency of Indian business with south-east Asian countries through the corridor of Kamrupa etc. etc. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : Kamal Nayan Patowary, (2013). Archaic Indian Rivers And The Kalika Purana : A Profile To A Mercantile History Of Kamrupa. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. VIII, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/3040.pdf References : - This celebrated treatise said to have been composed somewhere in or very near about Kamrupa (Assam). “This Upa-purana was written not later than AD 1100 and most probably in the tenth or eleventh century and it contains valuable materials for the study of the social, religious history of Kamrupa.
- A. K. Dutta., The Brahmaputra, 2001, New Delhi, p ix.
- This river has found mention in the Kalika Purana in reference to a romantic incident in which lord Siva tried to explain before his newly wedded wife Sati that like many other places of the world, the beautiful bank of Mahakosi river also had the latency to be her abode if she choose for. Kalika Purana 25/20 D. N. Bhattacharya (trns & ed)., Kalika Purana, 2008, Guwahati, p. 137.
- A. Borooah., Ancient Geography of India (1877) 1971 (RP), Guwahati, p. 110.
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