A History of Assam c16.23

c16.23

At the beginning of the seventeenth century the Jaintia king Dhan Mānik seized Prabhākar, the chief of Dimarua, whose family owed allegiance to the Kachāris. Prabhākar appealed to the latter, and their king, Satrudaman, demanded his release. Failing to obtain it, he led an army into the Jaintia kingdom and defeated Dhan Mānik, who thereupon submitted and undertook to pay tribute; he also gave two princesses to the Kachāri king and made over his nephew and heir-apparent, Jasa Mānik, as a hostage. The latter was kept a prisoner at Brahmapur, which was afterwards renamed Khaspur. To commemorate his victory, Satrudaman assumed the title Asimardan.