A History of Assam c16.13

c16.13

When war again broke out, in 1526, the neighbourhood of this river was the scene of two battles: the Kachāris were victorious in the first but suffered a crushing defeat in the second. Hostilities were renewed in 1531, and a collision occurred in the south of what is now the Golāghāt subdivision, in which the Kachāris were defeated and Detcha, the brother of their king, was slain. The Ahoms followed up their victory and, ascending the Dhansiri, penetrated as far as the Kachāri capital at Dimāpur on the Dhansiri, forty-five miles south of Golāghāt. Khunkhara, the Kachāri king, became a fugitive, and a relative named Detsung was set up by the victors in his stead.