Person · Ahom king · India
Suhungmung Dihingia Rājā
The Ahom ruler who took the title Swarganarayan, absorbed the Chutiya and Dimasa kingdoms into the state in the 1520s and 1530s, beat off the first Muslim invasions from Bengal, and began the census and the paik registers on which Ahom administration ran for the next three centuries.
- Date
- 1497–1539
- Function
- Authority & administration
- Patron dynasty
- Ahom
- Confidence
- Not assessed
- Location
- 27.000, 94.700
Worth knowing
He is also the point at which the dynasty begins to Sanskritise: the buranji chronicles start being kept in Assamese as well as in Tai Ahom under him, and the court begins using Hindu titles. The kingdom he built is the reason Assam has a continuous documentary history from the sixteenth century.
About the place
Placed at Charaideo, the Ahom dynastic burial ground and the original capital, which is where the dynasty's rulers including him were interred.
Connections (1)
- Contemporary capital withShankaradeva
Suhungmung's reign and Shankaradeva's life overlap almost exactly, and the two together are what made modern Assam: a Tai dynasty absorbing the valley's smaller kingdoms and beginning to write in Assamese, and a neo-Vaishnava movement giving that Assamese a literature, a music and an institutional network of sattras and namghars. The Ahom court was initially hostile to the movement and later endowed it, which is the usual sequence.
On these journeys
Sources
Wikipedia, “Suhungmung”. The Ahom buranji chronicles (trans. S.K. Bhuyan); Edward Gait, A History of Assam (1906).
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