The north-bank town of Sonitpur with the Bamuni hills (board), where the old temple ruins of the Gupta and Pala centuries stand.
Assigned by the campaign board to Kamarupa; the Chutia and Kachari lie east of it.
Who holds it
- Name
- not named
- Title
- Officer of the Kamarupa king
- Since
- not known
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
The campaign board entry only.
Lord in 1200
Vallabhadeva or a successor.
What the town holds
- The town and the Bamuni hills
How things stand that morning
A north-bank town of the Kamarupa kingship.
Wealth
Rice, river tolls, elephants of the north-bank forests.
Communities
Brahmans, cultivators, Bodo-Kachari neighbours (general knowledge).
Places of note
- Tezpur: Sonitpur.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Board.
Primary sources for Kamarupa
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- Inscriptions of Bengal, vol. 3, Various (the Sena kings' chanceries), edited by N. G. Majumdar (copper plates of the 10th to early 13th centuries; edited 1929). The one-volume edition of the Sena copper plates, the main documentary evidence for Bengal around 1200. Read online
- Epigraphia Indica: inscriptions of the Chandelas, Paramaras, Gahadavalas, Chaulukyas, Senas and Eastern Gangas, Various (edited for the Archaeological Survey of India by J. Burgess, E. Hultzsch, F. Kielhorn, Sten Konow, F. W. Thomas and successors) (inscriptions of the 1180s to 1210s; the series ran from 1892). The main record series for the Hindu kingdoms of northern India around 1200. Read online
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.