A History of Assam c19.9

c19.9

The prime minister of Ishān Deb was a Baidya, and the writer of his inscription was a Dās or Kaibartta. Rājendralāla Mittra suggests that these kings were sovereigns of Cachar, because they professed to be of the dynasty of Ghatotkacha, son of Bhim, one of the Pāndu princes, by Hidimba, the daughter of an aboriginal cannibal chief, and, according to him, the Kachāri kings claimed a similar descent. This, however, is by no means conclusive. It is quite possible that the same genealogy did duty for successive converts to Hinduism amongst the ruling chiefs of the Surma valley just as did that of Narak and Bhagadatta for those in the valley of the Brahmaputra.