A History of Assam c8.23

c8.23

There were at this period no large towns, and the capital of the country does not appear to have been a place of much importance. The only indication which is given as to its locality is that it lay 150 miles east of Paundra Vardhana. Cunningham, after identifying the latter place with Pabna, concluded that it was at Kāmatāpur. This place, however, is north rather than east of Pabna, and the identification of Pabna with Paundra Vardhana is open to doubt. The site of this town is more likely to have been at Mahāsthān on the right bank of the Karatoya, or at Pandua near Malda. In either case the distance to Gauhāti would exceed 150 miles, and it would thus seem that at that time the capital was somewhere further west, either in the Goālpāra district or the Koch Bihār State, or in the north-east of Rangpur.