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most learned, was chief of the Baro Bhuiyas, and acted as their priest, 
from which fact he was also known as Devidasa.* A story is told 
of Chandivara to the effect that he and the other Bhuiyasf went home to 
fetch their families, and that on starting to return they were seized by 
Gaudesvara and cast into prison Shortly afterwards a pandit from 
Benares visited the country and defeated all the learned men there in 
argument. The king confronted him with Chandivara, who soon over- 
came him, and he left the country covered with shame at his defeat. 
This so pleased the king that he at once released Chandivara and his 
companions and supplied them with boats in which to return to Kama- 
riipa. They went and settled at Paimaguri, where Chandivara earned the 
gratitude of the peasantry by constructing a bund in Bangs! pargana, 
which the Chaudhri of the place, by name Gandharva Rai, had in vain 
attempted to make. Subsequently the Bhotias raided and carried off 
a number of people including Chandivara’s son Rajadhara. Gandharva 
Rai fled to the south bank of the Brahmaputra, but Chandivara with 
the other Bhuiyas followed up the Bhotia raiders and rescued their 
captives. 
After Nilambara had been overthrown by the Musalmans under 
Husain Shah and the latter had in their turn been expelled by the 
A'homs, the country appears to have been broken up, as it had often 
been before, into numerous petty kingdoms, and amongst the rulers of 
these small principalities were twelve Bhuiyas, but whether these were 
descendants of the Bhuiyas imported by Devesvara or not is uncer- 
tain. 
* His son Rajadhara was the great grandfather of S'ankara Deva, the cele- 
brated religious reformer. 
+ The following list of Bhuiyas is taken from Lakshminarayana’s Purushavali : 
Charu, Uguri, Kusiun, Kalia, Luki, Jhargaon, Kabila, Karnapur, Phulguri, Bijni, 
Dighala and Pratap. Of these Uguri, Luki, Jhargaon, Karnapur, Phulguri, Bijuf 
and perhaps Dighala are names of places, and Charu, Kusum, Kalia, Kabila and 
Pratap are the names of rulers whose states are not mentioned. The twelve 
Bhuiyas were not the only rulers in the country during this period of anarchy. 
Amongst others, two brothers named Chandana and Madana are mentioned by Bucha- 
nan Hamilton as having ruled for eight years at a place called Maralavasa about 
twenty miles north of Kamathapura. In a lecture by Babu Ram Chandra Ghosh, 
quoted at page 407 of Hunter’s Statistical Account of Koch Bihar, it is stated 
that Chandana and Madana were the children of Haria Mandal by his wife J ira. 
But as will be seen hereafter, there is not sufficient evidence to justify this state- 
ment. The same Babu adds that Chandana became king in 1511 and was succeeded 
by Visva Sim ha, in 1524, after a reign of thirteen years. Gunabhiram mentions 
the kings of the following places as having been subdued by Visva Simha : — Dimu- 
ria, Beltola, Rani, Luki, Bogai, Pantan, Boko, Bangaon, Moirapur, Bholagaon, 
Chaigaon, Barnagar, Darrang, Karaibari, Attiabari, Kamathabari, and Balarampur. 
