540 Analysis of the Bengali Poem Rdj Mala, [No. 7. 



cut off her ears, a punishment which is often inflicted by husbands 

 in the present day when they suspect their wives of intriguing. 

 Jajarpha the 74th Raja, invaded Rangamati (Udipur). Nikka the 

 king of Udipur with a disciplined army of 10,000 men assisted by 

 the Kuki troops who erected stockades, fought against the Tripura 

 Raja, but was defeated, and Udipur was made the capital of Tripura. 

 During the battle the Raja in defiance of a prohibition laid on him in 

 the Lochan Charitra against entering a hut, attacked the king of Udipur 

 in one, as the latter entrenched his men in huts, thinking they would 

 not be assailed. This conquest increased the Raja's power and he pro- 

 posed to invade Bengal, but had not the means to execute his plans ; 

 though his dominions are said to have stretched nearly as far as Amara- 

 pur in Burmah. The priests of £iva in his time were noted for their at- 

 tention to the Shastras, drying their clothes by exposure to the air and 

 then removing them with their own hands. Of the Raja's immediate 

 successors, little is recorded except that some had no sons on account 

 of their wickedness. 



In the reign of the 96th Raja Sangthafah, a Chaudhuri (or principal 

 man of a Hindu corporation,) having been plundered in Tripura of 

 money and jewels, which he was going to present as a tribute to the 

 king of Gaur, laid a complaint before the Gaur monarch, who sent a 

 powerful army against Tripura, the king being frightened sued for peace. 

 On this his wife highly indignant abused him for his cowardice, tell- 

 ing him she would fight for him. She said to the soldiers, Your king 

 wants to act the part of a jackal, let those who wish to engage follow me. 

 The troops all agreed, but first she ordered a dinner of buffaloes' and 

 goats' flesh to be prepared for them by their wives, of which they all 

 ate very heartily, the next morning they ate again and then proceeded 

 against the enemy ; after a severe conflict they completely routed the 

 forces of the king of Gaur. After the battle, the Raja while reposing 

 on the tusks of an elephant* saw a bloody head dancing in the air, 

 which indicated that a lakh of persons had lost their lives. 



The queen of Khysangafah the 98th Raja was acquainted with weav- 

 ing which produced a beneficial effect on the kingdom. " Her son was 

 so virtuous that he had eighteen sons," wishing to know which of them 



* Some of the Hill tribes require their chiefs always to sleep with the head 

 reclining on an elephant's tusks as a pillow. 



