A History of Assam c11.104

c11.104

In the meantime the Kachāri Raja, Detsung, had again shown signs of hostility. An army was sent against him, and the king himself accompanied it as far as Marangi, or the lower part of the Dhansiri valley. The force advanced viâ Hāmdai to Bānphu, from which place troops were sent up both banks of the Doyang. The force which marched along the right bank drove back the Kachāris, but that on the left bank was held in check until reinforcements were pushed forward, whereupon the Kachāris fled, and suffered heavy loss in the pursuit which followed. Detsung at first took refuge in a fort on the Daimāri hill, but on the approach of the Ahoms, who advanced up the Dhansiri, he fled, first to Lengur and then to his capital at Dimāpur.