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| The river Manas
According to a school of
thought, the river Manas actually has a Bhutanese name origin as “DANG-ME-CHU” and “MANG-DE-CHU”
meeting at a confluence point called Panbang, a small sub divisional HQ inside
Bhutan to become Manas River that is upstream within Bhutan. Though lost in
antiquity the name “Manah” (not
Manas as is usually known) is derived from Assamese word “maan”,
meaning the Burmese army, popularly known as Maan, who raided Assam three times in medieval period . As the river was the western limit of Burmese advance, the
challenge came from across saying: maan+ah = manah;
meaning “Maan you come if you dare”!
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