A History of Assam c11.109

c11.109

The relations of the king with his son Suklen gradually became very strained. Suklen had been very anxious to take for himself the three Kachāri princesses captured at Dimāpur and was mortally offended when his father asserted his right to them. The latter, on his side, was exasperated by his son coming on one occasion into his presence without making the customary obeisance. They quarrelled again over a cock fight, and, at last, Suklen, who had already been suspected of treachery during the war with the Muhammadans, became openly hostile. The king was afraid of treachery, and made Suklen’s mother swear fealty by dipping her hand in water, but, this notwithstanding, in January 1539, Suklen suborned a Kachāri servant of the king, named Rātiman who crept stealthily into his bedroom and stabbed him while he slept. The assassin was caught and killed by the palace guard before he could make good his escape.