A History of Assam c10.55

c10.55

Nar Nārāyan executed many useful public works. The construction of the Kamala Ali has already been mentioned. He made many other roads, and planted trees along them. He also erected several temples and caused numerous tanks to be dug. There is a tradition that he straightened the Brahmaputra near Pāndunāth, where it had previously run a very circuitous course. In 1636 the branch of that river which formerly flowed past Hājo is said by contemporary Muhammadan writers to have dried up, and we may perhaps conjecture that this was in consequence of the gradual enlargement of the channel cut by this king more than half a century before. Nar Nārāyan had a mint, and coins bearing his name, dated 1477 Sak (1555 A.D.) are still in existence.*