A History of Assam c7.s2.34

c7.s2.34

Arimatta. Rām Chandra had a beautiful wife who was raped by the Brahmaputra river and gave birth to a son named Arimatta.* This prince founded a kingdom further west and defeated many other chiefs. At last he came into conflict with Rām Chandra and killed him, not knowing till afterwards of his relationship with him. According to other accounts he accidentally shot his father with an arrow which he had discharged at a deer. In any case, the sin of patricide is generally attributed to him, and many stories are told of his vain efforts to atone for the sin which he had unwittingly committed.