A History of Assam c12.55

c12.55

Among the miscellaneous events of this reign may be mentioned a bad outbreak of cattle disease in 1618, which carried off many cows and buffaloes, and a flight of locusts in 1641, which spread all over the country from west to east, and caused such widespread devastation that a famine resulted from it. A great deal of damage was done by lightning; two palaces were destroyed in this way and also the house in which the Somdeo was kept, the temple at Bishnāth and the king's elephant house or *Falkhānā*.