A History of Assam c12.203

c12.203

He advanced to the Sikling river, whence he detached a force to attack the hillmen, but they hid themselves in the dense jungle and the detachment returned without finding them. The Bar Barua then began to retrace his steps, but, on the receipt of a peremptory order from the Raja to persevere, he constructed a fort on the bank of the Bharali and ascended again to Sikling, whence he advanced by successive stages to the Pāti, Tilari, and Petarhing rivers. His advance guard took a village on a hill, but the Daflas then surrounded and destroyed it. The Bar Barua, on hearing of this disaster, again beat a retreat. The king thereupon ordered him to be stripped naked and put to death, but on the intercession of the queen-mother, the sentence was commuted to one of dismissal and banishment.