| Temples & Legends Of Assam |
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| Temples & Legends Of India |
THE SATRAS - III |
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India, the humiliation to which these unfortunates were subjected, drove them to the bosom
of other religions; in Assam, the liberal policy of the Kalasamhati Satras endowed them with a sense of self-respect and
individual value. These Satras made a great appeal to
the unsophisticated Assamese people and thus they commanded unprecedented
popularity." The missionaries deputed by these
Satras no doubt brought the cult of devotion and
universal love and opened the doors of salvation to all tribes irrespective of caste and
character but they also "introduced an unwanted gentleness and fervor, and tamed the
rude manly savagery of Tantric
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