A History of Assam c12.79

c12.79

In the meantime Jayadhvaj Singh, who was also on the alert to take advantage of the dissensions amongst the Mughals, assembled a strong army, threw two bridges over the Kallang and advanced towards Gauhāti. On arriving, he found that the Faujdār had fled by boat to Dacca without waiting to be attacked. Twenty cannon and a number of horses, guns, etc., which there had been no time to remove, fell into his hands.† Prān Nārāyan now proposed an offensive and defensive alliance against the Muhammadans and a friendly division of their possessions in Assam, he taking the tract lying on the north bank of the Brahmaputra and the Ahoms that on the south. His advances were rejected by the Ahoms who were elated by their easy capture of Gauhāti. They marched against the Koches and, after a slight check, defeated them twice and drove them across the Sankosh. They thus became the masters of the whole of the Brahmaputra valley, and nearly three years elapsed before any effort was made by the Muhammadans to regain their lost territory. During this period, a number of the inhabitants of villages in Lower Assam were transported to the eastern provinces. According to the *Ālamgirnāmah* the Ahoms, not content with their conquest of the whole of the Brahmaputra valley, plundered and laid waste the country to the south of it, almost as far as Dacca itself.