Mainao

Endle describes Mainao, also called Bhulli Buri, as Bathou’s consort and guardian of rice fields. He connects the names Asu Mainao and Sali Mainao with the corresponding harvests and reports offerings of eggs.

Names and tradition associations

• Mainao Bodo · same recordSidney Endle, The Kacharis (1911), pp. 35–37 and Appendix I p. 82 (secondary)
• Bhulli Buri Bodo · same recordSidney Endle, The Kacharis (1911), pp. 35–37 and Appendix I p. 82 (secondary)
• Asu Mainao Bodo · same recordSidney Endle, The Kacharis (1911), pp. 35–37 and Appendix I p. 82 (secondary)
• Sali Mainao Bodo · same recordSidney Endle, The Kacharis (1911), pp. 35–37 and Appendix I p. 82 (secondary)

Variant accounts

• parentage correctionThe former parent link cites Endle, but pp. 36–37 call Mainao Bathou’s consort. That source does not establish her father. Removing the unsupported baseline is not a claim that she is uncreated; any daughter account requires its own verified source.Sidney Endle, The Kacharis (1911), pp. 35–37 and Appendix I p. 82 (secondary)
• source review correctionUse the attested name as the display name; retain the earlier descriptive label as an alias.Sidney Endle, The Kacharis (1911), pp.35–37, Appendix I p.82 (secondary)

Domains

• rice and harvest
• prosperity and fertility

Powers

• protect the paddy from germination to harvest

Relations

• syncretism: LakshmiThe Bodo rice-and-prosperity guardian is read as Lakṣmī in Hinduized practice (Mainao ~ Bhandari Lakshmi of the granary); her paddy-field guardianship and paired position under Bathou stay distinctively Bodo.Sidney Endle, The Kacharis (1911), on Mainao as household rice-wealth goddess assimilated to Lakshmi among Hinduized Kacharis (secondary)
• spouse: Bathou BwraiEndle’s account, pp. 36–37.Sidney Endle, The Kacharis (1911), pp. 35–37 and Appendix I p. 82 (secondary)

Sources

• Mainao is the rice-goddess of the Bodo, protector of the paddy fields and goddess of prosperity and fertility, often equated with Lakshmi; her name combines mai ('paddy') and no ('house').: 'Bathouism', Wikipedia, accessed June 2026 (encyclopedia); 'Ag lainai: The Ritual of Cutting the First Fruits of Paddy', Humanities Across Borders, accessed June 2026 (secondary)
• Bodo sources differ on Mainao's relationship to the supreme god: she is described both as the daughter of Bathoubwrai and as his consort, worshipped on a household altar in the granary/north-eastern room.: 'Bathouism', Wikipedia: 'Mainao, the daughter of Bathoubwrai' (encyclopedia); Bodo religion surveys: Mainao described as consort of Bathoubwrai worshipped alongside Songraja (secondary)
• Endle describes Mainao, also called Bhulli Buri, as Bathou’s consort and guardian of rice fields. He connects the names Asu Mainao and Sali Mainao with the corresponding harvests and reports offerings of eggs.: Sidney Endle, The Kacharis (1911), pp. 35–37 and Appendix I p. 82 (secondary)