A History of Assam c14.15

c14.15

but it was soon afterwards destroyed by the Moāmariās. Gaurināth now sent up four hundred Bengal mercenaries and, with their aid, the Burhā Gohāin made a fort at Teok. On the advent of the rainy season, however, he again fell back behind the Desoi river. The Moāmariās captured an advanced position on the Kokila river, but they were repulsed with heavy loss in a subsequent attack on a fort near the Bar Āli, on the right bank of the Desoi. This reverse appears to have disheartened them; and for some time they abstained from regular fighting, and resorted to guerilla tactics. They harassed the inhabitants of the tract held by the Burhā Gohāin by constant raids, especially at night, when small bodies would pass up the Dhansiri and Kākakān streams, plunder some village on the banks, and disappear again before they could be intercepted.