A History of Assam c8.53

c8.53

When the next and last copper-plates (those found at Benares) were inscribed, between fifty and a hundred years later, we find the kings of Prāgjyotisha feudatory to the Bengal line of Pāl kings, who had by this time driven back the Sen dynasty and regained their former position as the paramount power in North Bengal. The inscription records that Tishya Deb, king of Prāgjyotisha, had rebelled against his Suzerain, Kumār Pāl, and the latter sent an army against him under his minister, a Brāhman named Vaidya Deb. Vaidya Deb defeated and killed Tishya Deb and succeeded him as king of Prāgjyotisha. The land-grant which bears his name was issued in the ninth year of his reign, from his "victorious camp" at Hamsa Konchi, a place which has not yet been identified. He appears to have remained feudatory to the Pāl kings, but, from his assumption of the title Mahārājādhirāj, his vassalage seems to have sat very lightly on him. Professor Venis, who deciphered the inscription came to the conclusion that it was made in 1142 A.D.