Tripuri

The Tripuri, or Tiprasa, were a Tibeto-Burman people of the hills east of Bengal, speakers of Kokborok and descendants of the rulers of Twipra. Their court chronicle, the Rajmala, traced the kings to the mythical Lunar Dynasty, and their worship centred on fourteen gods, tended by Chontai priests at the Kharchi festival.

Early in the fifteenth century Chhengthung Fa took the title Maha Manikya, beginning the Manikya line; under Ratna Manikya the capital moved to Rangamati on the Gomati, and Dhanya Manikya, reigning from 1463 to 1515, extended the kingdom's power into eastern Bengal.

The Tripuri withstood Afghan and Mughal attacks, but the plains, including Comilla, were later lost to Mughal-backed rivals and became a Mughal client, while the hill kingdom preserved its independence.