A History of Assam c10.76

c10.76

Meanwhile Lakshmī Nārāyan had turned his attention to the Muhammadans, and, in 1596, he had declared himself a vassal of the Mughal Empire. In the *Akbarnāmah* it is said of him that he "has 4,000 horse and 200,000 foot, 700 elephants and 1,000 ships. His country is 200 *kos* long and from 100 to 40 *kos* broad, extending in the east to the Brahmaputra, in the north to Tibet, in the south to Ghorāghāt and in the west to Tirhut." In 1597 he gave a daughter in marriage to Raja Mān Singh, at that time the governor of Bengal. Soon afterwards, the latter sent a detachment into Koch Bihār to protect him, but the quarter from which an attack was threatened is not stated.