A History of Assam c11.50

c11.50

Sukhāngphā, to the throne. One of his first acts was to lead an army against the Chutiyās to punish them for the treacherous murder of Sutuphā. The elder of his two wives was left in charge during his absence. She was on bad terms with the younger queen, who was the king’s favourite, and took advantage of her position as regent to cause a false accusation to be preferred against her. The charge was investigated and declared true, whereupon the elder queen ordered her to be beheaded. The ministers, however, seeing that she was pregnant, instead of killing her, set her adrift on the Brahmaputra on a raft. The king was victorious in his campaign against the Chutiyās, but was horrified, on his return, to hear of the execution of his favourite wife, especially when a new and impartial enquiry showed that the allegations against her were false. He was, however, too much under the influence of the elder queen to venture to take action against her. This, and his failure to prevent her from committing numerous acts of oppression, irritated the nobles so much that in 1389 they caused him to be assassinated.