1850.] or Chronicles of Tripura, 539 



Dakkhin succeeded in accordance with the wishes of the people and 

 of his father Trilochan, but the eldest son was much annoyed at his 

 brother's receiving almost an equal share of his father's property, only 

 two being reserved for him and also that he did not succeed to the 

 throne, being in Kachar at the time of his father's death. He in 

 consequence declared war and gained a victory after a battle which 

 lasted seven days, the eleven brothers fled to the Khalansha river where 

 they founded a settlement. The brother died in a good old age when 

 he was preparing to abdicate the throne in consequence of a rebellion 

 that broke out. 



Fifty-six monarchs succeeded him, whose names alone survive. 

 Kumar, the fifty-seventh in succession visited Samalanagar " the dwell- 

 ing place of «Siva," who at that time fell violently in love with a Kuki. 

 On diva's wife hearing of it, she kicked the woman so violently as to 

 break her neck. The Linga worship was in vogue on the banks of 

 the Manu, but (Siva vexed at the increasing wickedness, and at 

 Rajeshwar, the 60th king of Tripura in succession, shooting an arrow 

 at his lingum because a son was refused to his prayers, declared he 

 would no more visit Tripura, though his foot marks should remain in 

 the temples ; he stated that the Raja should have no son to succeed 

 him, yet he promised if he offered up a human victim he would be 

 propitious in other respects : the victim was procured with difficulty, 

 for the people fled.* 



Pratit the 69th Raja, formed a strict treaty of alliance with the 

 Raja of Kachar on the subject of their boundaries, declaring that 

 " the crow would assume a white colour sooner than they should 

 infringe on each other's limits." The neighbouring chiefs fearing the 

 effects of this alliance sowed dissension between them by means of a 

 beautiful womanf whom they sent to the Raja of Tripura ; the Raja 

 of Hirambu became jealous and threatened to slit her nose and 



* This indicates that the practice of human sacrifice could not have been very 

 common at that time, and it also shews it was associated in Tripura, as in other 

 parts of India, with the worship of Siva. 



f The women of Tripura as well as Asam were not immured and coerced in the 

 same way as Bengali females are ; even in the present day iu Asam " in most parts 

 of the country the women of rank go about in public, quite divested of artificial 

 modesty." The Burmese and Mug women also appear in public. 



