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[[Samudragupta]]'s 4th-century-CE [[Allahabad Pillar#Samudragupta inscription|Allahabad pillar inscription]] mentions [[Kamarupa]]<ref>Tej Ram Sharma,1978, "Personal and geographical names in the Gupta inscriptions. (1.publ.)", Page 254, Kamarupa consisted of the Western districts of the Brahmaputra valley which being the most powerful state.</ref> and [[Davaka]] (Central Assam)<ref>Suresh Kant Sharma, Usha Sharma – 2005,"Discovery of North-East India: Geography, History, Culture, ... – Volume 3", Page 248, Davaka (Nowgong) and Kamarupa as separate and submissive friendly kingdoms.</ref> as frontier kingdoms of the [[Gupta Empire]]. Davaka was later absorbed by Kamarupa, which grew into a large kingdom that spanned from Karatoya river to near present [[Sadiya]] and covered the entire Brahmaputra valley, [[North Bengal]], parts of [[Bangladesh]] and, at times [[Purnea]] and parts of [[West Bengal]].<ref>The eastern border of Kamarupa is given by the temple of the goddess Tamreshvari (Pūrvāte Kāmarūpasya devī Dikkaravasini in [[Kalika Purana]]) near present-day Sadiya. "...the temple of the goddess Tameshwari (Dikkaravasini) is now located at modern Sadiya about 100 miles to the northeast of Sibsagar" {{harv|Sircar|1990|pp=63–68}}.</ref>The kingdom was ruled by three dynasties who traced their lineage from a mleccha or Kirata Naraka;<ref>In early epics, Naraka is called a mleccha, a kirata, outside the fold of Varnasaramdharma{{harv|Das|2005|p=225}}</ref> the [[Varman dynasty|Varmanas]] (c. 350–650 CE), the [[Mlechchha dynasty]] (c.655–900 CE) and the [[Pala dynasty (Kamarupa)|Kamarupa-Palas]] (c. 900–1100 CE), from their capitals in present-day [[Guwahati]] ([[Pragjyotishpura]]), Tezpur ([[Haruppeswara]]) and [[North Gauhati]] ([[Durjaya]]) respectively. All three dynasties claimed descent from [[Narakasura]]. In the reign of the Varman king, [[Bhaskaravarman]] (c. 600–650 CE), the Chinese traveller [[Xuanzang]] visited the [[Kamrup region|region]] and recorded his travels. Later, after weakening and disintegration (after the Kamarupa-Palas), the Kamarupa tradition was extended to c. 1255 CE by the Lunar I (c. 1120–1185 CE) and Lunar II (c. 1155–1255 CE) dynasties.<ref name="HKBarpujariCHOA" />