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Assamese poetry is poetry inAssamese language. It borrows many themes from Sanskrit literature and is mainly devotional in tone. The origins of Assamese poetry are considered to have taken place in the early 13th century, theBhagavat Purana is one of the most notable examples

Sanskrit literature, the fountainhead of most of the Indian literature, supplied not only the themes of medievalAssamese literature but also has inspired many a writer of modern Assamese literature to undertake creative writings in the context of modern literary trends and styles. Literature starting with poetry in Sanskrit was mainly devotional in tone and tenor, and so does the Assamese version. Since all the adaptations are being rooted in Sanskrit, making no contrary to this Assamese literature (poetry) was at the devotional tone and tenor. The starting of Assamese Poetry is marked with the adaptation from Sanskritpuranas into Assamese by the poet-scholarHema Saraswati in the early 13th century. His first adaptation wasPrahlad-Charita adapted fromVamana Purana.

Starting with a very few adaptations, Assamese Poetry were of the devotional type in the very beginning. Later the adaptations got divided into two types – religious and secular. During the period of Vaishnavite revivalism, the secularism trend got into much demand. TheBhagavat Purana was considered to be the most important among all thepuranas.Sankardev (1449–1568), the initiator of theBhakti movement, started the process of translating and adapting different books and episodes of Bhagavat-Purana by rendering more than seven books (SKANDHA) and composed a fewkāvyas basing on that. He was the introducer ofBORGEET, the most initial form of Assamese poems. (There is still confusing to call them poems since they were sung with musical instruments like KHOL and TAAL).^[1]

• List of Assamese poets
• History of Assamese literature

• Modern Assamese poetry, by Hem Barua. Pub. Kavita, 1960.
• History of Assamese literature, Birinchi Kumar Barua. East-West Center Press, 1965.Chapter VII: Poetry
• Sailen Bharali (1992)."Modern Assamese Literature".Modern Indian literature, an anthology, Volume 2. Sahitya Akademi.ISBN 81-7201-324-8.
• Mysticism in Indian poetry: a critical study of the Assamese mystic poets of the romantic age, by Kamal Narayan Choudhury. Punthi-Pustak, 1996.ISBN 81-85094-95-0.

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