[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [A History of Assam](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.gait-1906) › c12.55 # A History of Assam c12.55 A History of Assam c12.55 - **Language:** English ### [c12.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.gait-1906.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\*. - [Previous: c12.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.gait-1906.c12.54) - [Next: c12.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.gait-1906.c12.56) - [Up: c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.gait-1906.c12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.gait-1906.c12.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.gait-1906.c12.55) · Pramāṇa