A History of Assam c12.7

c12.7

Pratāp Singh was greatly enraged on receiving news of this disaster, but he foresaw the approach of renewed hostilities with the Muhammadans and was unwilling to weaken his resources by continuing the struggle with the Kachāri king. He therefore sent him a pacific message and presents, and said that Sundar Gohāin, in attacking him, had disobeyed orders. Pratāp Nārāyan accepted the explanation and asked for an Ahom princess in marriage. He was given a daughter of one of the chief nobles, who was escorted by the Burhā Gohāin to his capital. Soon afterwards it became known that Akhek Gohāin who, in the meantime, had been placed in command at Dikhumukh, was partly responsible for the disaster at Rahā. Being dismissed from his post, he began to tamper with the local chiefs on the north bank of the Brahmaputra, who are said to have offered to make him their king, but, at the last moment, his courage failed him and he fled, first to Parikshit, ruler of the eastern Koch kingdom, and then to the Muhammadan governor of Bengal.