Narayan

The Narayan rulers were the middle royal line of the Kamata kingdom, born when Raja Sandhya moved his capital from Kamarupanagara to Kamatapur after 1257. The line began when the minister Pratapdhvaj usurped the throne; on his death his cousin Dharma Narayan seized power, until Pratapdhvaj's son Durlabh Narayan forced a partition that left him Kamatapur and other lands.

Durlabh Narayan patronised the poets Hema Saraswati and Harivara Vipra, whose works, including Hema's Prahlada Charita, count among the earliest written Assamese poems. His successor Indra Narayan was weakened by the invasion of Sikandar Shah of Bengal between 1357 and 1390, after which the Baro-Bhuyan chieftain Arimatta usurped the kingdom, ending this line.