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Twipra Kingdom
Summary
The Twipra Kingdom (Sanskrit: Tripura, Anglicized: Tippera) was one of the largest ancient - historical kingdoms of the Tripuri people in Northeast India.
The present political areas which were part of the Twipra Kingdom are:
Barak Valley (Cachar Plains), Hailakandi and Karimganj in present-day Assam
Comilla, Sylhet and the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh
The present-day states of Tripura and Mizoram
The Twipra Kingdom in all its various ages comprised the areas with the borders:
The Khasi Hills in the North
The Manipur Hills in the North-East
The Arakan Hills of Burma in the East
The Bay of Bengal to the South
The Brahmaputra River to the West
A list of legendary Tripuri kings is given in the Rajmala chronicle, a 15th-century chronicle in Bengali written by the court pandits of Dharma Manikya I (r. 1431). The chronicle traces the king's ancestry to the mythological Lunar Dynasty. Druhyu, the son of Yayati, became king of the land of Kirata and constructed a city named Trivega on the bank of Kapila river. His kingdom was bounded by the river Tairang on the north, Acaranga on the south, Mekhali on the east, Koch and Vanga on the west. The daughter of the King of Hedamba was married to King Trilochona of Trivega. The King of Hedamba, having no heir, made the eldest son of Trilochona the king of his land. After the death of Trilochona, his second son Daksina became King of Tripura. Daksina shared the wealth of the kingdom among his eleven brothers. Being the eldest son of Trilochona, the King of Hedamba demanded his kingdom from his brothers. In denial, the enraged King of Hedamba attacked Tripura and destroyed the capital. The eleven brothers left Trivega and moved to Khalangma on the bank of river Varavakra and found the capital Khalangma. In the 8th century, the kingdom shifted its capital eastwards along the Surma river in Sylhet, near the present-day town of Kailasahar in northern Tripura.
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