305 
1893.] E. A. Gait — The Koch Kings of Kamarupa. 
this is too early. According to this authority his death took place 
in 1637. 
Regarding Lakshmi Narayana, who succeeded his father in the 
Lakshmi If aray ana’s western portion of the Koch kingdom in 158* 
dates. A. D., we know from Musalman sources that 
he was still reigning in 1618. 13abn Ram Chandra Ghosh says that 
he died in 1622 A. D. 
The dates of these earlier Koch Kings appear therefore, to be ap- 
proximately those shown in the following ge- 
Summary. r J 
nealogical tree. 
HAJO (PROGENITOR OP KOCH RA'JA'S). 
ViSva Simha (1509-1531) S'iva Simha (Ancestor of Raikat family) 
Nara Narayana (1534-1584) Silarai 
Lakshmi Narayana (1581-1622) Raghu Rai (1581 1593,) (Rajaof 
(Raja of Koch Bihar) Goalpara, Kamrup, and Darrang) 
i i — i 
Parikshit. Bali Narayana. Gaja Narayana. 
(1593-1614) (1614-1637) (Raja of Beltola) 
(Raja of Darrang) 
Vijita Narayana. 
(founder of the Bijni dynasty) 
Subsequent History op the Koch Rajas. 
The subsequent history of the descendants of Lakshmi Narayana will 
be found in Hunter’s Statistical Account of 
Koch Bihar family. iCoeL Bihar, pages 409-426, and the only addi- 
tional information of any importance of which I am aware, is that 
contained in the extracts from the Fathiyah i ‘Ibriyah which were pub- 
lished by Blochmann in the J. A. S. B. for 1872, pages 63-68. Prom 
these exti’acts it appears that in 1558 A. D., during the wars for the 
succession to the Delhi throne, Raja Bhima Narayana took advantage of 
the disturbed state of the country to make raids into Ghoraghat and 
attempted to recover Kamarupa. In the latter endeavour he was thwart- 
ed by Jayadhvaja Simha, the A'hom king, who had also sent an army 
into Kamarupa. When Mir Jumla became governor of Bengal, he at 
