A History of Assam c17.9

c17.9

With the Rajas of Jaintia, however, thanks to the extension of their dominions into the southern plains, the case is different; and the inhabitants of the Jaintia parganas preserve in their traditions a list of kings, of whom the seventh, Dhan Mānik, is known to have been reigning at the close of the sixteenth century. The accuracy of the list, so far as this and the subsequent kings are concerned, is confirmed by inscriptions on coins* and copper-plates, and by references made to them in the chronicles of the Ahom kings. Assuming that the entries in the list relating to kings anterior to Dhan Mānik are equally reliable, and allowing to each of them a reign of sixteen years, we obtain the following approximate dates of these earlier rulers:—