A History of Assam c14.98

c14.98

Meanwhile the Bar Phukan died, and one Badan Chandra was chosen as his successor. This appointment was a most disastrous one, and was destined to involve the country in even greater troubles than those from which it had only recently emerged. Before long, reports began to come in of his oppressive behaviour and gross exactions, while the conduct of his sons was even more outrageous. One of their favourite pranks was to make an elephant intoxicated with bhāng, and let it loose in Gauhāti, while they followed at a safe distance, and roared with laughter as the brute demolished houses and killed the people who were unlucky enough to come in its way.