A History of Assam c14.97

c14.97

As Chandrakānt grew up, he began to fret at the Burhā Gohāin’s influence, and struck up a great friendship with a youth of his own age named Satrām, the son of an Ahom soothsayer. He would often listen to this lad’s advice in preference to that of his nobles, and at last took to receiving them in audience with Satrām seated at his side. They protested, but in vain, and things rapidly went from bad to worse. Satrām became more and more insolent in his dealings with them, and at last, thinking to obtain the supreme power for himself, he sought to procure the assassination of the Burhā Gohāin. Like most such plots, it was discovered in time. The Burhā Gohāin arrested all the conspirators and put them to death, except Satrām, who fled for protection to the king. The Burhā Gohāin insisted on his surrender, and the king at last reluctantly gave him up, after stipulating that his life should be spared. The young upstart was banished to Nāmrup, where he was soon afterwards killed by some Nāgas. It was believed by many that the king himself was privy to Satrām’s conspiracy. Others averred that Satrām was murdered at the instigation of the Burhā Gohāin.