অসমীয়া ব্যাকৰ আৰু ভাষাভ political power was thus shifted in the 13th century to kamatapur in the district of Rangur. king Durlabh Narayan Was a patron of learning and learned men, poets and religious preceptors flocked to his court for literary and religious pursuits. As at present known, two early Assamese poets, Hem Sarasvati and Harihar Bipra, wrote Assamese puthis under Durlabh Nayan's patronase. Another poet, Kavi Ratna Saraswati, translated the Dona Parva of the Mahabharata under orders of his son, Indra Naryan Mention is also made of Durlabh Narayan in the Guru caritras of Daityari Thakur and Dija Bhuyan in later years. There is thus no reason to doubt the existence of Durlabh Narayap, King of Kamatapur. | The ancient kingdom of Tripura (Tippera) comprised, at one time, the Kapii valley, the North Cachar Hills and Cachar. About the fifah century AD, Dikpati, a scion of the Tripura Raj family, who succeeded to the throne of his father-in-law, the King of Hedamba, invaded the Kapii valley and drove the King of Tripura to Carhar. About the thir- teenth century A.D. Ratnapha, King of Tripura, first assumed the sur- name of “Manikya, Since then all succeeding Kings of Tripura and also probably the Kings of Jayantia and Hedamba assumed that surname. Ratnapha's great-grand-son was “Maha-Manikya", The Hon'ble Rai Bahadur K, L, Barua places him in the middle of the fourteenth century. A prominent Assamese poet, Madhava Kandali, translated the whole of the Ramayana into Assamese under orders of Maha-Manikya Barai Raja". This Maha-Manikya was evidently the Tripura king of that name. The late Pandit Hem Chandra Goswami and Rai Bahadur Madhay Chandra Sarma Bardalai also placed Madhava Kandali in the middle of the fourteenth century but held that his patron, who was styled “Barahi,” was a Kachai king of Hedamba. But the term Barahi" may as well mean the Jaintias and some other people. It should also be remembered that in the opinion of the editor of the Rajamala two Assamese pandits, Baneswar and Sukreswar, acted as the Court poets of Tripura. The probability is that Madhava Kandali was also a court poet of that kingdom. | After Indra Narayan's reign darkness again fell on the history of Kamatapur. About the fourteenth century A.D., however, the then kings are found reigning at Kamatapur. In the fifteenth century their power was declining. The last king of this line, Nilambar, was over- thrown by Hussain sah about l498 A.D.. | A war is described in an Assamese artificial epic, the Padma. purana of Sukavi Narayana Deva or Sukai Ballabha, betwen Hasan Hussain on one side and the followers of goddess Padm: on the other 1. J. A. k. s. Vol. III, p. 98. 3 see Introduction to my Prahad Carit.
