A History of Assam c17.16

c17.16

At the beginning of the seventeenth century the Jaintia king Dhan Mānik seized Prabhākar, the chief of Dimarua, whose family had formerly been vassals of the Kachāris. He appealed to the Kachāri Raja, who demanded his release and, meeting with a refusal, invaded Dhan Mānik's kingdom, routed his army, and compelled him to sue for peace. He acknowledged himself a tributary of the Kachāri monarch and gave him two princesses in marriage; he also made over his nephew and heir-apparent as a hostage.