A History of Assam c16.12

c16.12

withdrew before the advance of the Ahoms. For a hundred years, this river appears to have formed the boundary between the two nations, and no hostilities between them are recorded until 1490, when a battle was fought on its banks. The Ahoms were defeated and were forced to sue for peace. But their power was rapidly growing, and during the next thirty years, in spite of this defeat, they gradually thrust the Kachāri boundary back to the Dhansiri river.*