A History of Assam c13.9

c13.9

The Tipām Raja, who was one of the rival claimants to the throne, raised an army and marched towards the capital. He was met and defeated by the Bar Barua, and was caught and executed. The Bar Barua also, on his own motion, put to death a number of his private enemies, whom he enticed from Gauhāti on the pretence that the king had sent for them. Suhung, finding that he was nothing more than a puppet in the hands of this crafty and overbearing minister, sought means to kill him, but the Bar Barua was informed of his danger by a servant, and so caused the king to be assassinated after a reign of only 21 days.