A History of Assam c9.4

c9.4

He took shelter in a temple, but the Raja besieged him and threw up a bamboo palisade all round his encampment. He broke through this, but most of his followers were drowned in trying to cross the river, and only Muhammad Bakhtyār himself with a few hundred horsemen succeeded in reaching the other bank. He was there assisted by the Mech inhabitants, and with their aid managed to find his way to Deokot in the south of Dinajpur.