Sandhya (also known as Gaudesvara) was a king of Kamarupa kingdom in north-eastern India in the present-day state of

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, India. He founded the

Kamata Kingdom The Kamata Kingdom (pron: ˈkʌmətɑ) emerged in western Kamarupa probably when Sandhya, a ruler of Kamarupanagara, moved his capital west to Kamatapur sometime after 1257 CE. Since it originated in the old seat of the Kamarupa kingdom, a ...

when he moved his capital west to Kamatapur (present-day Gosanimari) sometime after 1257 CE. He became the ruler of Kamarupa in 1228, when Sultan Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah, who had earlier killed his predecessor

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in 1228 AD, However, after Nasir-ud-din Mahmud withdrew from Kamrup, Sandhya stopped paying tribute and assumed independence. In 1229, after the death of Nasiruddin, Sandhya drove the Muslims out of his territory and captured territory until

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. Thereafter, to avenge the previous defeats, he invaded the western border of Gaur (Lakhnauti) and annexed regions across the Karatoya into his kingdom. In retaliation,

Malik Ikhtiyaruddin Yuzbak Malik Ikhtiyār ad-Dīn Yūzbak ( fa, ملک اختیار الدین یوزبک), and later Mughith ad-Din Abu al-Muzaffar ( fa, مغیث الدین ابو المظفر) was the appointed as the Delhi Sultanate's Governor of Bengal from 1251 CE t ...

the governor of Gaur for the Mamluk rulers of Delhi, attempted an invasion on Sandhya's domain in 1257. However, Sandhya defeated the invasion attempt, captured and killed Malik Ikhtiyaruddin Yuzbak. Subsequent to this attack, Sandhya moved his capital from Kamarupanagara (present-day

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) to Kamatapur in present-day

Cooch Behar district Cooch Behar district () is a district of Indian state of West Bengal. Formerly part of the Kamarupa kingdom, the area became the heart of the Kamata Kingdom in the 12th century. During the British Raj, the district was known as Cooch Behar st ...

and established a new kingdom, called the

.(Kamarupa) was reorganized as a new state, 'Kamata' by name with Kamatapur as capital. The exact time when the change was made is uncertain. But possibly it had been made by Sandhya (c. 1250 – 1270) as a safeguard against mounting dangers from the east and the west. Its control on the eastern regions beyond the Manah (Manas river) was lax."

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sandhya History of Assam Hindu monarchs 13th-century Indian monarchs Kamarupa (former kingdom)