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defeated. The Raja then applied himself to devotional objects, he 

 observed the ceremony of tuld y * gave presents of horses, elephants, &c. 

 to the Brahmans and particularly to those who came from Mathra, 

 Benares, and Orissa, he paid the travelling expenses of those Brahmans 

 who were desirous of making a pilgrimage. He died A. D. 1659. 



We make a passing remark that though Bakhtiyar Khiliji the con- 

 queror of Nadiya, invaded Asam, he found the people not the feeble race 

 he had met with at Nadiya, and retired broken-hearted from defeat. 

 It was not until a late period the Musalmans entered Tripura led by a 

 desire to obtain elephants which they wanted for military purposes. 



A. D. 1659, Gobinda Manik mounted the Tripura throne, his wife 

 was a devotee who dug a tank called after her own name, she had also 

 coined mohars in which her own name was on one side, that of the 

 Raja and Siva's on the other. The step-hrother of the Raja, having 

 obtained assistance from the Nawab of Murshidabad attempted to gain 

 possession of the throne ; the Raja being a peaceable man and not wish- 

 ing to fight with a relative, fled to the king of Arakan, who gave him an 

 hospitable reception, and Chattra Manik obtained possession of the 

 throne, but he died of small-pox after a reign of seven years. 



While Gobind was at Arakan, Shah Suja, the son of the emperor 

 Shah Jehan, came there ; having been defeated by his brother and 

 disgusted with the world, he marched through Tripura to Arakan in 

 order to embark thence for Mecca where he intended to end his 

 days, he was received very kindly by the ex- Raja of Tripura who gave 

 him a Nimcha sword as a mark of his gratitude. But the king of 

 Arakan pretending that Shah Suja had conspired against his life by 

 sending soldiers in disguise into his palace in dulis, in order to assas- 

 sinate him, resolved to kill him, but being a Buddhist he could not shed 

 blood except in battle, he had him therefore bound and put into a boat 

 on the river, a plank being taken out of the boat it sank with Suja 

 fast bound in her, the King satisfying his conscience by drowning 

 him, and not shedding his blood ; the consort of Suja plunged a dagger 

 into her bosom rather than submit to the embraces of the Raja of 

 Arakan ; while her daughters poisoned themselves. 



* Sioce Hindus have ceased to be the rulers of India the ceremony of tula to 

 the great pecuniary loss of the Brahmans has ceased to be observed in India : it 

 consisted in the king's giving his own weight of gold or silver to the Brahmans. 



