A History of Assam c9.23

c9.23

It remains to deal with the western part of the Brahmaputra valley, which in former times, as we have seen, was included in the ancient kingdom of Kāmarupa, whose western boundary was the Karatoya. At the period with which we are now dealing, the whole tract up to the Karatoya seems still, as a rule, to have formed a single kingdom, but the name had been changed from Kāmarupa to Kāmatā.† The Muhammadan historians sometimes speak as if the terms Kāmarupa and Kāmatā were synonymous and applicable to one and the same country, but on other occasions they appear to regard them as distinct, and it would seem that at times the tracts east and west of the Sankosh owed allegiance to different rulers, just as they did in the latter days of Koch rule.