Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domainThe court chronicles of the Ahom kingdom, kept year by year for six centuries from the arrival of Sukaphaa in 1228.
They record reigns, embassies, wars and omens, including the long Mughal wars and the battle of Saraighat on the Brahmaputra in 1671, where Lachit Borphukan, ill, had himself carried to the front and turned back the Mughal fleet.
They are one of the few long, continuous state chronicles kept by an Indian kingdom, and the main source for Assam’s resistance to the Mughals.
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