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of Sarvananda as leader of the Moam arias, as no coins of Sarva- 

 nanda are known subsequent to 1717. Bharatha's insurrec- 

 tion probably accounts for the non-existence of any coins of 

 Kamalesvara, Gaurlnatha's successor, before 1720, and the 

 minting of coins in this year raises a question as to whether the 

 date of Bharatha's death (1721) is correctly given by the 

 Buranjis. Marsden (Numismata Orientalia, p. 777) states that 

 KamaleSvara, who is said to have been an illegitimate descen- 

 dant of Kana, the second son of Gadadhara, was never pro- 

 perly installed, and although he survived until 1732 it is curi- 

 ous that the only coins known that bear his name are those 

 dated 1720. ' From Mr. Gait's account of his reign there seem 

 to have been constant rebellions, and in 1727 at the invitation 

 of the Moran Moamarias, who had again revolted under Sarva- 

 nanda Sirhha, detachments of the Burmese for the first time 

 were brought into the country to fight against the adherents 

 of the Burha Gohain. 



Chandra Kanta, Brajanatha, Purandar and 



JogeSvara. 



According to the Buranjis, the Burha Gohain placed 

 Chandra Kanta, the youthful brother of Kamalesvara, on the 

 throne when the latter died, but none of his coins are known 

 except those of 1741 and 1742. Five years after Chandra 

 Kanta 's nominal accession, one Badan Chandra, a Bar Phakan 

 whom the Burha Gohain wished to dismiss, fled first to Calcutta 

 and then to Burma, where in 1738 S'aka he induced the Burmese 

 King to send an army against the Burha Gohain, on the pre- 

 tence that the Burha Gohain had usurped all the authority of 

 the Assam King. The Burmese army of invasion twice defeated 

 the Assamese armies, but left the country in the following year 

 on payment of an indemnity. On their departure, the Assamese 

 ministers quarrelled amongst themselves, and the son of the old 

 Burha Gohain. who had died in the vear of theBurmese invasion, 



procl 



galea 



Braja- 



natha at once caused coins to be struck in his own name, but it was 



as 



Purandar 



made King instead of him. Chandra Kanta was seized and his 



was 



on the throne" (Gait). Intelligence of these events quickly 

 reached Burma, and on the arrival of a fresh Burmese army, 

 about a year later (February 1819, or the end of 1740 S'aka), 

 Purandar Simha fled to Gauhati and Chandra Kanta was again 

 placed on the throne by the Burmese. He remained a nominal 



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