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Raja Prasiddha Narayana’s Vamsavali agrees with it in all particulars, 
and the account given by Gunabhiram in his A'sdm Buranji is also 
practically the same. In the latter, however, Hajo is mentioned as the 
father of Hira and Jira; it does not appear from his account that either 
of them had a husband, and S'iva is said to have been the father of 
Sisn as well as of Bisu. Buchanan Hamilton says that Hajo Koch 
had two daughters, Hira and Jira, of -whom the former was married 
to Hariya Mecli. She had a son, Bisu, while her sister (whose husband 
is not mentioned) had a son, Sisu. He adds that S'iva was claimed 
as the progenitor of both Bisu and Sisu. The Raikat family of 
Baikunthpur claim to be descended from Sisu, and over that he was 
the brother and not the cousin of Bisu. Another account says that 
Cliandan and Madan were the children of Hariya Mech by his wife 
Jira ‘and that S'isu and Bisu were born of his wife Hira by the god 
S'iva. * 
Prom these accounts we may, I think, conclude that Sisu and 
Bisu were the children of Hariya Mech by his wives Hira and Jira, 
and that the latter were daughters of Hajo, who was of the Koch tribe, 
a fact which is proved not only by the authorities mentioned above, but 
also by the fact that the existing representatives of the family still describe 
themselves as “ Koch,” and by the Musalman names for the country, 
Koch Bihar and Koch Hajo. Ralph Pilch also refers to S'uldadkvaja 
as Shukl Koch. There is not sufficient evidence for 
Chandan and Madan belonged to this family. 
There is less unanimity regarding the kings by whom the Koch 
kingdom was consolidated and extended and 
The division of the . 
country into two king- the period at which it was divided into two 
doms. 
parts. 
According to Buchanan Hamilton)-, it was Hajo who founded the 
kingdom, and Visva Simha who divided it into two parts, giving the 
position east of the Sankosh to S'ukladhvaja and the position west of 
that river to Kara Narayana. The same version is given in the family 
history of the Rajas of Bijui. Other authorities however, agree with 
Raja Lakshmi Narayana’s Vamsavali. Balm Ram Chandra Ghosh, to 
whose lecture reference has already been made, says that Nara Narayana 
“ with the assistance and advice of his younger brother S'ukladhvaja, 
“otherwise called Silarai, extended his kingdom in all directions. He 
“ conquered the whole of Kamarupa and carried off in triumph the 
“ chhattra or umbrella of the king of Assam. The king gave to his elder 
* Lecture delivered by Babu Bam Chandra Ghosh before the Koch Bihar 
Hitaishini Sabha, and printed in Calcutta at the expense of the Raj in 18G5. 
t Hunter’s Statistical Account of Rahgpur, page 351. 
assuming that 
