28 Facts About Sujinphaa

Sujinphaa began his reign well with proper advice and support from Atan Burhagohain and other nobles.

Sujinphaa was the son of Namrupia Raja Tailai and grandson of Ahom king Pratap Singha.

Sujinphaa's wife belonged to the Sandikai family, one of the prominent Ahom noble families, who bore him four sons, Sengmung, Dighala, Sutyang and Sunnang.

Sujinphaa then installed Gobar from Tungkhungia branch of Royal Ahom Dynasty on the throne.

Sujinphaa assumed the Ahom name Sujinphaa, while the Brahmins conferred on him the title Sur Singha.

The reign of Sujinphaa supported by the wisdom and foresight of Atan Burhagohain promised to be one of prosperity and peace.

Sujinphaa had free access to the palace as a near relative of the king's mother.

Sujinphaa succeeded in arousing the maternal fears of the Borkunwari or Chief Queen by warning hers of the evil days that were in store for her four sons if the premier was allowed to wield unbounded power as he was doing at present.

Meanwhile, the two sons of Sujinphaa had once, in the excitement of a hunting excursion, obstructed the path of the Burhagohain.

Sujinphaa then went to the king and told him that the Burhagohain was making elaborate preparations for attacking the monarch.

Sujinphaa posted additional men to guard the entrances of the palace, and appointed spies to keep watch over movements of the Burhagohain and his adherents.

Therefore, when the nobles led by Atan Burhagohain visited the royal palace with the desire to meet the king, Sujinphaa declined their request on the plea of his illness and asked the nobles to return home.

King Sujinphaa actively engaged himself in preparations to seize the persons of Atan Burhagohain and his supporters.

Sujinphaa equipped the attendants of the palace with daos, shields, bows and arrows, and mounted guns at the several entrances.

Sujinphaa however allowed half of his men to accompany the Burhagohain retaining the other half with him.

Meanwhile, Sujinphaa was anxious to compose his differences with the Burhagohain, had been sending emissaries to meet the latter at his camp.

Sujinphaa then retreated to Singhaduar, the principal gate of the capital, and encountered the ministerialist in an engagement on the river.

Sujinphaa left the scene of battlefield in a boat by which he sailed down a short distance, and stopped near a camp.

Sujinphaa asked the Tamuli to make a receptacle with the ends of his cloth.

Sujinphaa then poured into the Tamuli's cloth four handfuls of silver rupees.

Sujinphaa took shelter in his palace at Garhgaon to pass a few hours that might still be spared in the company of his wives and children.

Sujinphaa then found a prince, who was the grandson of Prince Sukrang, the founder of Parvatia branch of Royal Ahom Dynasty son of Ahom king Suhungmung, living near Charaideo Hill, and proposed to place him on the throne.

Sujinphaa was known as Parvatia Raja from the fact of his residence at Charaideo Paravat.

Sujinphaa was waiting for the approach of the two Phukans with the manuscript of the sacred book Ratnavali tied to his breast, and his youngest son seated on his lap, hoping thereby that his person would be held sacrosanct and therefore unassailable, touched as it was by sacred book and an innocent child.

Sujinphaa was refused admittance to the secret deliberations of the Phukans held later in the inner apartments of the Burhagohain's house.

Sujinphaa was predominantly a man of peace; and he abhorred harshness and cruelty except when his impetuosity led him to actions which brought him to repentance with the revival of reason.

Sujinphaa was grateful by disposition and upbringing, and he hesitated to disbelieve the counsels of his immediate associates lest he offended their sentiments by his distrust.

Sujinphaa lost his throne and his life as a retribution for his imbecility as a sovereign; however unsurpassed he might have been in the sphere of refinement and good breeding.