Raja Prithu
Raja Prithu (also known as Jalpeswara) was a warrior king of the early medieval period in the present-day state of Assam, India and Bangladesh. Archeological remains of a Shiva temple and extensive fortifications in present-day Jalpaiguri in India and present day Rangpur District of Bangladesh are attributed to him. Identity of king Prithu K. L. Barua claimed that the throne of Kamarupa was occupied by a king named Prithu after the end of the Vaidyadeva line. He credits this Prithu with the achievement of having defeated Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar. Though N. K. Bhattasali asserts that the Prithu mentioned in the Tabaqat-i-Nasiri was a king from Awadh, many scholars support the view that Minhaj himself was mistaken. Recent scholarship tentatively identifies Prithu mentioned in Minhaj's Tabaqat-i Nasiri with Visvasundara of Kamarupa. Khalji's encounter with the Rai of Kamrup In 1206, Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji planned to invade Tibet, in order to plunder the treasures of the Buddhist monasteries and gain control of Bengal's traditional trade route with South East Asia for which he had to pass through Kamrup and Sikkim. By this time Khalji had massacred 10,000 monks of Nalanda and had burned it down. Then he came to Bengal which