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purushias (a sect of Vaishnavas), but Mr. Gait notes that once 

 in a fit of anger at the death of his son he also persecuted the 

 Brahmins. As Messrs. Vincent Smith and Allan point out, the 

 date of Pratapa Simha's coins, 1570 S'aka ( = 1648 A.D.) is 

 decisive in establishing that for some unknown reason the 

 Buranji dates for the first half of the 17th century cannot be 

 always trusted. The Assamese historian Ka&inatha was almost 

 certainly right in maintaining that Pratapa Simha died in 1649 

 A.D. (and not in 1641), but on the other hand the Buranjis 

 are probably correct in stating that Susenpha came to the 

 throne in 1603, as from the Jaintia Buranji we learn that he 

 married his daughter to Dhan Manik, Raja of Jaintia, in 1528 



S'aka ( = 1606 A.D.). 1 How long the two Kings, nicknamed 

 Bhaga Raja and Nariya Raja, who in turn successively followed 

 Pratapa Simha, reigned, and when Jayadhvaja came to the 

 throne, cannot, in the absence of inscriptions, be determined 

 with any certainty. If, however, as seems probable, Mr. Gait 

 is correct in his reading of the inscription on Jayadhvaja's can- 

 non found at False Point (Report, pp. 10 and 29), Jayadhvaja 

 was on the throne in 1658, and there is no difficulty in agreeing 

 with KaSinatha in assigning his installation to the year 1654, 

 the two previous Kings being allotted reigns of 3 and 2 years 

 respectively. As the coin of the next King, Chakradhvaja, 

 shows, Jayadhvaja must have died soon after the withdrawal 

 of Mir Jumla's troops from Assam in 1663. Cannon inscriptions 

 bearing Chakradhvaja's name and dates 1589 and 1590 S'aka 

 ( = 1667 and 1668 A.D.) are known (Report^ p 29) and as his 

 successor, Siinatpha (Udayaditya), struck Ahom coins in 1669 

 A.D., the duration of Chakradhvaja's reign could not have 

 exceeded 6 years. A cannon at Gauhati, cast in Udayaditya's 

 reign, is dated 1594 S'aka ( = 1672 A.D.), and, according to the 

 Buranjis, he was poisoned in 1K73 by Ramadhvaja who succeeded 

 to the throne. No 



is an Ahom coin of his successor Siihun, bearing a date equi- 

 valent to 1 675. 



The coin of Chakradhvaja dated 1585 Sfika, which was 

 evidently minted in the year of his installation, exhibits, like 

 those of Pratapa Simha, Vaishnava influence both in the King's 

 name and the invocation on the obverse to Siva and Rama 

 (Siva and Vishnu). This coin will be found reproduced as Fig. 1 4 

 of Plate XXIII, Contributions L as well as in Plate XXIII of Mr. 

 Allan's paper. The 



was King of Assam when Mir Jumla invaded the country, is 

 probably due to the seizure of his Garhganw Treasury by the 

 Muhammadans and the necessity of paying a monetary indem- 

 nity (nominally Rs. 3,00,000) besides a dowry of 2,000 gold 

 muhurs and 12,000 silver coins for the Assamese girl who 



1 Gait, Report, p. 18. 



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