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gents, in consequence of which the place was called Baradala. On 
another occasion he stopped at Bhramarakunda where he built a fort 
and a monastery on a hill called Nil Khamar, a family of Kacharis 
being appointed to attend on Trisuladevi, the goddess of the place. It 
is said that he fixed the Gosain Kamala Ali as the boundary north of 
which the Kachari, Koch and Mech aboriginal forms of worship should 
be practised, while south of it Hindu observances were to be followed. 
Further on he halted at Singiri Parbat, and after that on the Bharali. 
In the meantime, the Ahom king who had heard of the invasion, 
summoned a meeting of his councillors, and with their advice, caused 
an iron goat to be made. This goat he sent to Nara Narayana, say- 
ing that if he could sever its head from its body at one stroke he 
should have his kingdom, but not otherwise. Nara Narayana offered 
two goats to Kali, and then taking a sharp sword struck off the 
head of the iron goat with such force that the sword buried itself 
in the earth. On hearing of this, the A'hom king was filled with fear, 
and fled to Charai Kharang* Nara Narayana then entered Garhgaon.f 
Finding that the Ahom king was not disposed to fight, Nara Narayana, 
after halting for a year at Garhgaon sent word to him saying that if 
he wished to fight he should come prepared, and that if he did not 
come, and at the same time did not surrender, he would go and attack 
him at Charai Kharang. On receiving this message, the A'hom king- 
agreed to acknowledge himself a feudatory of Nara Narayana, and sent 
as hostages a prince named Sundara and twenty families of the Ghar- 
matha clan, together with one pot of gold and another of silver, 60 
elephants and 60 pieces of cloth. { 
After that the Koch king left Garhgaon and proceeded first to 
Marahg and thence to Demera. 
* According to other accounts, including that in Gunabhiram’s Asdrn Buranji , 
the Ahom king is said to have for a time averted defeat by sending forward an 
army of S'udras mounted on cows. A similar stratagem is referred to in the 
Rdjamala or Chronicles of the kings of Tippera. 
t The Purushanama states that this was formerly the capital of the Chutiya 
Raja. The Ahoms were unable to conquer this king and so made peace with him. 
Their ruler married his daughter, and through her discovered that her father’s 
supremacy was due to the possession of a golden cat. He made his wife steal this 
for him, and when he had got it, he attacked and killed the Chutiya Raja, whose 
sons fled for refuge to the Miri and Miching country. 
$ Sundara and his comrades were subsequently released owing to Sundara ha vino- 
succeeded in worsting Nara Narayana in a gambling contest. The Ahom chronicles 
add that when they returned to their own country, they took back goldsmiths 
blacksmiths, and other artizans with them. (Gunabhiram’s A'sam Buranji pp 68 
and 117.) 
