A History of Assam c11.115

c11.115

The patricide Suklenmung succeeded to the throne. He made his capital at Garhgāon, whence he is also known as the Garhgāya Rājā. His first act was to endeavour to remove suspicion as to his complicity in his father's murder by ordering the assassin's brothers to be put to death. During the earlier years of his reign, he paid repeated visits to the country recently taken from the Kachāris, for the purpose of bringing it under proper control and introducing a settled form of government. Finding that his efforts were being hampered by the turbulence of some of the petty chiefs, or Bhuiyās, who occupied the valley of the Kopili, he caused them to be transported to a place nearer head-quarters, where they would be under supervision.