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--THE GLORIOUS HISTORY OF ASSAM--
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RUDHRA SINGHA (1696 – 1714)
“Do not appoint persons of low social ranks in high offices. Do not trust persons with
foreheads smeared with horizontal lines. Do not entertain the couriers with female –
dancers dancing to the tune of drums” – Gadadhar Singha
Policy towards the satras Patronage of cultural activities
• He created a special khel called Bairagi, whose
• He brought back the
function was to visit different countries and report
satradhikars and ordered that
the king of the nature of the social and cultural life
the Brahmana Gosains should
led there.
have their headquarters on the
• It is said that it was he, who, for the first time had
Majuli.
the Bihu celebrated in the palace courtyard and
• He received the Auniati Gosain,
organized varied performances for full seven days
who was the most influential of
including competitions of different kinds of sports
the Brahmana Satradhikars, as
and games and cultural shows
his religious preceptor.
• There were a number of poets and scholars in his
• Policy of divide and rule – Synod
court. The most notable was Kabiraj Chakravarty
of Garhgaon (1702) – it
who composed the famous drama Sankha-Chuda-
debarred the Sudra Mahantas
Badha, and had also translated the Abhijnanam
from initiating the Brahmanas.
Sakuntalam and Brahma Vaivarta Purana into
Assamese.
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RUDHRA SINGHA (1696 – 1714)
Architecture:
• Kareng Ghar
• Jaysagar tank
• Jaydaul
• Namdang bridge, etc.
• Rudra Singha’s inclination towards Sakta Hinduism increased as he grew older and at last
he decided to formally embrace that religion. A Sakta Brahmin priest Krishnaram
Nyayavagish was summoned from Bengal for this purpose. But the king died before
having his initiation.
• He however instructed his sons to accept the Bengali priest as their religious preceptor
and establish him on the Nilachala hill, for which the priest came to be known as
Parvatiya Gohain.
• Rudra Singha expressed his will from his death bed that all of his sons should become
kings in order of succession.
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SIVA SINGHA (1714 – 1744) Phuleswari
• Siva Singha was greatly influenced by Brhmana She attempted to make Saktism
priests and astrologers. In 1722, at the the state religion. She summoned
suggestion of the Parvatiya Gosain, he endowed the Sudra Mahantas to the Durga
his chief queen Phuleswari with the supreme puja and compelled them to bow
vest. The latter accordingly took the regalia to their heads before the goddess,
her hands with the title Bar Raja. have their foreheads besmeared
with the blood of the sacrificed
• Phuleswari died in 1731. the king then married animals and made them accept
her sister Draupadi and made her Bar Raja. nirmali and prasad. More than
others, the powerful Maymara
• At her death in 1738, she was succeeded as Bar Mahanta considered it aa serious
Raja by another wife of Siva Singha, named insult, not to be forgotten or
Enadari, who was renamed as Sarveswari. forgiven.
• Phuleswari – Gaurisagar tank Phuleswari also suppressed the
• Draupadi – Sivsagar tank. Siva doul. Famous age-old Ahom custom of burying
Assamese work on elephantry called Hsti their dead and compelled them to
Vidyarnava was written under her patronage. take to cremation.
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