A History of Assam c11.54

c11.54

Having thus disposed of his more active enemies, Sudāngphā endeavoured to conciliate the rest of the Tipāmias by marrying the daughter of one of their chiefs named Khuntai. The girl, however, had already become enamoured of a Tipāmia named Tāi Sulāi, and the latter, after dining one night with the king, sent a ring to the queen by one of his servants. The king was informed of this, and called for an explanation from Tāi Sulāi, who fled forthwith to Surumphā, king of Mungkang, and begged for help. The latter sent his Bar Gohāin with an army against Sudāngphā, who met the invaders in person and defeated them, near Kuhiārbāri in the Tipām country, but sustained a slight wound from a spear-thrust while riding on an elephant at the head of his troops. The enemy were pursued by the Ahom Bar Gohāin as far as the Pātkāi. There were no further hostilities, and a formal treaty was concluded in 1401 by which the Pātkāi was fixed as the boundary between the two countries. The meeting of the two Bar Gohāins, who conducted the negotiations for peace, took place on the side of the Nongnyāng lake, twenty-eight miles south-west of Margherita, and statues of them are said to have been carved in the rock there. A solemn oath of amity was sworn, and consecrated by the cutting up of a fowl. The word Pātkāi is said to be derived from this incident. The full name was Pāt-kāi-seng-kau, which means "cut-fowl-oath-sworn." The former name of the pass was Dāi-kau-rang or "the junction of nine peaks." Nong-nyāng means "lake-shaking."