Tribes in Ancient India c59.18

c59.18

King Prālamba of Kāmarūpa (c. 800–825 A.D.)¹ is described in the Tezpur plates of his grandson as ‘Prāgjyotiṣeśa’, i.e. ‘ruler of Prāgjyotiṣa’. His grandson Vanamāla claims to belong to the line (anvaya) of the lords of Prāgjyotiṣa, and so also does Balavarman, another king of the same dynasty (c. 975 A.D.). During the earlier half of the eleventh century A.D., the capital city of Prāgjyotiṣa seems to have attained great eminence under the kingship of Ratnapāla. In the Bargaon grant of this king, the city is referred to as impregnable, and rendered beautiful by the Lauhitya (= Brahmaputra river?).²