A History of Assam c13.22

c13.22

Larā Raja soon proved himself to be a most unsatisfactory king. He aroused the resentment of his nobles, not only by his incapacity and utter want of aptitude for public business, but also by his tyrannical conduct. In July 1681, the Bar Phukan openly espoused the cause of Gadāpāni who, up to this time, had been living in concealment near Rāni in Kāmrup, in the house of a Gāro woman, wearing the garb of a common peasant, and working in the fields like an ordinary cultivator. The king prepared to resist, but he had no real supporters; and, as the rebels advanced towards the capital, his army melted away. The Dakhinpāt Gosāin, who was the Guru both of the king and of the Bar Phukan, in vain exhorted the latter to return to his allegiance. The king, deserted by all, sought safety in flight, but was caught and banished to Nāmrup. He was afterwards put to death for intriguing to recover the throne.