A History of Assam c10.25

c10.25

This decisive defeat led to a cessation of hostilities for some years, but in 1562 a fresh attempt was made by Nar Nārāyan to overcome his powerful rival. According to one of the Ahom Buranjis this war arose out of a dispute in connection with Nar Nārāyan's invasion of the Kachāri country, referred to below, in the course of which he is said to have devastated some villages inside the Ahom frontier. A force was sent up the Brahmaputra in boats as far as the mouth of the Dikhu, where an engagement took place in which the Ahoms appear to have been worsted. In the following January the redoubtable Chilarai himself took the field with a large force and, in a second engagement near the Dikhu, inflicted an overwhelming defeat on the Ahoms. Their king and his chief nobles fled to Charaikharang in Nāmrup, and the Koches entered their capital Garghaon, in triumph. Some months later the Ahom Raja sued for terms, and peace was concluded on the following conditions, viz., the acknowledgment of the Koch suzerainty, the delivery of a number of sons of the chief nobles as hostages, and the payment of an indemnity, consisting of sixty elephants, sixty pieces of cloth and a quantity of gold and silver.