A History of Assam c11.88

c11.88

Kāmatā in 1498, and the other against the Ahoms some twenty years later. The Riyāz was not compiled until 1787, and two expeditions in the same direction might easily be confused, and treated as one and the same, in the lapse of years and the uncertain record of oral tradition or loose writing. It is known that the invasion of Kāmatāpur ended with the death of the Raja Nilāmbar. In Husain Shāh's inscription of A.H. 907 (1501 A.D.) at Gaur the conquest of Kāmrup and Kāmata only is referred to, and there is no mention of any expedition against the Ahoms, so that it had probably then not taken place. In these circumstances there seems no reason to doubt the accuracy of the Ahom chronology. In the Fathiyah i'Ibriyah it is said that Husain Shāh's army consisted of 24,000 foot and horse and numerous ships. (J. A. S. B., 1872, pp. 78 and 335, and 1873, p. 209).