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Udayaditya. According to the Jaintia Buranji described by 

 Mr. Gait at page 1 8 of his Report on the Progress of Historical 

 Research in Assam, friendly letters passed between Lakshmi 

 Singha of Jaintia and the Ahom Kings Chakradhvaja and 

 Udayaditya. Lakshmi Singha or Lakshmi Narayan therefore 

 must have been on the throne in a.d. 1670, and the coin 

 bearing that date was probably issued in the year of his 

 accession. It is not unlikely that Chakradhvaja congratulated 

 him on his accession, and that he returned the compliment 

 by congratulating Udayaditya on the latter' s accession to 

 the Ahom throne later in the same year. If this is the case, 

 the coin dated 1591 Saka (a.d. 1669) must mark the accession 

 of Lakshmi Narayan's predecessor Pratapa Singha. Nothing 

 is known of this ruler except his name, and there is therefore 

 nothing improbable in the assumption that his reign lasted 

 only for one year. The ruined palace at Jaintiapur bears an 

 inscription stating that it was erected by Lakshmi Narayan 

 in some date which is indistinct, and which is suggested by 

 Mr. Gait to be 1602 Saka or a.d. 1680. According to the 

 Jaintia Buranji Lakshmi Narayan was still on the Jaintia 

 throne on the accession of the Ahom King Rudra Singha in 

 a.d. 1696. The tone of Lakshmi Narayan's letter to Rudra 

 Singha on the occasion of his accession was considered to be 

 not what it should have been, and some coldness appears to 

 have resulted between the two monarchs. The Ahom Buranjis 

 contain a detailed account of a war which broke out between 

 Rudra Singha and Lakshmi Narayan's successor Ram Singha I 

 in a.d. 1707. Lakshmi Narayan therefore must have died 

 between 1696 and 1707, but no specimen of Ram Singha's 

 coinage has as yet been discovered. Ram Singha was cap- 

 tured by the Ahoms and died whilst still a prisoner in 1708. 

 The Jaintia coin dated 1630 Saka (a.d. 1708) was therefore 

 struck on the accession of his successor Jay Narayan. Jay 

 Narayan was succeeded by Bara Gosain, the date of whose 

 accession is fixed by a named quarter coin and an anonymous 

 whole coin as 1653 Saka (a.d. 1731). In a.d. 1774 Jaintia 

 appears to have been conquered by a British force under a 

 Major Henniker, but it was restored on payment of a fine. 

 The coin dated the same year (1696 Saka) may have been 

 issued by Bara Gosain on the occasion of his restoration to 

 the throne. The next two anonymous coins must mark the 

 accession of Chattra Singha and Bijaya Narayan in a.d. 1782 

 and 1785 respectively. Bijaya Narayan is known from a 

 copper plate to have been reigning in a.d. 1788. Bijaya 

 Narayan was succeeded by Ram Singh II, the date on whose 

 coins (1712 Saka, or a.d. 1790) no doubt marks the date of 

 his accession, and who lived till a.d. 1832. 



A copper plate dated a.d. 1770 states that the King 

 Bara Gosain, having become a Sanyasi, made a grant of land 



