A History of Assam c16.42

c16.42

The Ahom records contain no further reference to the Kachāri kings for nearly sixty years, but an inscription on a rock-cut temple at Maibong sets forth that it was excavated in the Sak year 1633 (1721 A.D.) in the reign of Harish Chandra Nārāyan, who is described as "Lord of Hidimbā"; and we know from a document, certifying the appointment of one Maniram as Vazir of Barkhola, that in 1736 the reigning monarch was named Kirti Chandra Nārāyan. In 1765, when messengers calling upon him to appear before Raja Rājesvar Singh were sent to Sandhikāri, who was then reigning, the latter refused to receive them. The Ahom king thereupon sent his Bar Barua with an army to Rahā. This had the desired effect. Sandhikāri surrendered himself to the Bar Barua and was taken before Rājesvar, by whom he was admonished; then having tendered his apologies, he was permitted to return to his country. He did not reign much longer; and, by 1771, he had been succeeded by Harish Chandra Nārāyan, "King of Hidamba," whose name is preserved in an inscription recording the erection of a palace at Khāspur in that year.