Kamarupa Kingdom

Main article: Kamarupa Kingdom

Copper Plate Seal of Kamarupa Kings at Madan Kamdev ruins.

Samudragupta's 4th-century Allahabad pillar inscription mentions Kamarupa (Western Assam)

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 and Davaka (Central Assam)[167] as frontier kingdoms of the Gupta Empire. Davaka was later
absorbed by Kamarupa, which grew into a large kingdom that spanned from Karatoya river to
near present Sadiya and covered the entire Brahmaputra valley, North Bengal, parts
of Bangladesh and, at times Purnea and parts of West Bengal.[168]
Ruled by three dynasties Varmanas (c. 350–650 CE), Mlechchha dynasty (c. 655–900 CE)
and Kamarupa-Palas (c. 900–1100 CE), from their capitals in present-
day Guwahati (Pragjyotishpura), Tezpur (Haruppeswara) and North Gauhati (Durjaya)
respectively. All three dynasties claimed their descent from Narakasura, an immigrant
from Aryavarta.[169] In the reign of the Varman king, Bhaskar Varman (c. 600–650 CE), the
Chinese traveller Xuanzang visited the region and recorded his travels. Later, after weakening
and disintegration (after the Kamarupa-Palas), the Kamarupa tradition was somewhat extended
until c. 1255 CE by the Lunar I (c. 1120–1185 CE) and Lunar II (c. 1155–1255 CE) dynasties.
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 The Kamarupa kingdom came to an end in the middle of the 13th century when the Khen
dynasty under Sandhya of Kamarupanagara (North Guwahati), moved his capital to Kamatapur
(North Bengal) after the invasion of Muslim Turks, and established the Kamata kingdom.[171]