La dinastia Barman o Varman (350-650) fou la dels primers governants històrics de Kamarupa o Kamrup; va ser establerta per Pushya Barman, un contemporani de Samudragupta.[2][3] Aquesta dinastia esdevingué vassalla de l'imperi Gupta, però quan el poder dels Guptes va decaure, Mahendra Varman (470-494) va fer el sacrifici de dos cavalls i es va despendre del del jou imperial.[4] La primera de les tres dinasties de Kamarupa, el Varmans o Barmans, va ser seguida per la dinastia Mlechchha de Xaala Stambha i després d'una restauració dels Barman, va seguir la dinastia Pala (en llengua local Paal).
La genealogia dels Varman o Barman apareix plenament en les inscripcions en lamines de coure de Dubi i Nidhanpur del darrer rei Varman, Bhaskar Varman (650-655), on Pushya Varman és anomenat el fundador. La inscripció de Dubi de Bhaskar Varman afirma que Pushya Varman va néixer en la família de Naraka, Bhagadatta i Vajradatta (mentre fou el cas per les altres dues dinasties de Kamarupa) tres mil anys després d'aquests avantpassats mítics.[5][6][7] La dinastia del mig Mlechha (Mech) encara que reclama la mateixa descendència fou una nissaga de governants tribals nadius.[8] K.L. Barua opina que hi va haver una revolta Mlechha (Mech) a Kamarupa i Salastambha i el dirigent o governador dels Mlecches va usurpar el tron deposan a Avanti Barman successor immediat de Bhaskar Varman.[9]
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↑Arun Bhattacharjee (1993), Assam in Indian Independence, Page 143 While Pushyavarman was the contemporary of the Gupta Emperor Samudra Gupta, Bhaskaravarman was the contemporary of Harshavardhana of Kanauj.
↑"Three thousand years after these mythical ancestors (Naraka, Bhagadatta and Vajradatta) there occurred Pushyavarman as the first historical king, after whom we have an uninterrupted line of rulers up to Bhaskarvarman."
↑"According to him (D C Sircar) Narayanavarma, the father of Bhutivarman, was the first Kamarupa king to perform horse-sacrifices and thus for the first time since the days of Pusyavarman freedom from the Gupta political supremacy was declared by Narayanavarma.
↑"(I)t is significant that like the kings of the Bhauma-Naraka family they also claim descent from Naraka or Bhagadatta, and this descent is acknowledged outside also outside their own kingdom when the Pashupatinath temple inscription of Nepal described Rajyamati, the daughter of Sri Harsha of the family of Salasthambha as bhagadatta-raja-kulaja.
↑"The mythical ancestors of this line of rulers were Naraka, Bhagadatta and Vajradatta.
↑George van Driem (2001), India - Volume 2; Volume 10, Page 506 Although Kamarupa was at times ruled by Indo-Aryan dynasties and at times by native Mleccha dynasties
↑Sarkar, Ichhimuddin. Aspects of historical geography of Prāgjyotiṣa-Kāmarūpa (ancient Assam). Naya Prokash, 1992, p. 295.
↑Though there exists no direct evidence, there are indirect evidence of a king who ruled for a short period after Bhaskarvarman, but was ousted by Salasthamba (Sharma 1978, pàg. xxxi-xxxii)
