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| MAP SHOWING THE AREAS OF HABITATION BY THE BORO RACES |
The 10 less known facts of the BODO or BORO (Mech) community-
- Nakrashur (NARKHW-ASHUR) ruled in Assam who belonged to Kirat-Ashur tribe. Pragjyotishpur (PURGAJWNGTIPUR-LAND OF BRIGHT LIGHT) was his capital. He belonged to the Kirat-ashur nationality, also called Mlechha king or the king of the Mlech or Mech people. (Kirat Janakriti, S.K.Chatterjee).
- The kamakhya temple build by Narkrashur was a Bathou temple.
- Narakasur was killed by Lord Krishna of Dwaraka.
- King Bhagadatta, the son of King Narkashur, also took part in the battle of Kuruchetra. He formed two regiments and fought on the side of Kauravas against the Pandavas. He was slain in the battle.
- An intellectual luminary Dr. S. K. Chatterjee in his competent work, "Kirat Janakriti" mentions that Buddha, who is considered as one of the greatest leaders and teachers of mankind, was thought to be of pure or of mixed Kirat origin.
- The Bodos are the first settlers and thought to have introduced rice cultivation and silkworm rearing to the region.
- The word ‘Bodo’ was first used by the European scholar, Hudgson to refer to a group of languages of the Mongoloid race and Sino-Tibeto group of people inhabitating the hills and plains of the entire North Eastern region of India.
- Mr. Rajani Kanta Hazarika mentioned in the “Book Mangal Kachari Gupta Itihas” (1986) that the kings of the Kirata of that early age used the Boro language of the present age along with their subjects. During the period of the pre-Mahabharata age there was no habitant of any other nations in the Eastern part of Guwahati than the Kirata Mangal people. The people of the Bodo Kachari group of families belonged to the family of the Bana King. The people of that family used the Boro Language.
- The Bodo language had a script of its own called Deodhai.
- According to Dr. P.C. Chowdhury and other historians the Boro language was the official and Court language of the Kirata Kings. With the help of Boro language and its medium, the Kiratas developed their art and culture and were civilized. But in the later period the Aryan Kings and the people tried to destroy the Boro Language and Mediums. Collected by- Thomas Basumatary
