was caught and blinded while three of his followers were fried to death in oil. The Morans under Badal Gaonburha rebelled in the extreme east but were dispersed. In 1786 there was a more serious revolt of the Moamarias on the north bank of the Lohit. An expedition against them was cut up; fresh troops sent were also defeated near the Garaimari bil. Moamariya rebellion The Chiefs of Rani, Luki and Beltola on being asked, sent up a force to Pahamara in the Majuli.. The Moamarias attack- ed and took the Goramur Sattra and put the Gauhati levies to flight with heavy loss?. The Burha Gohain entrenched at Sonari was attacked and defeated and retreated to Gaurisagar and re- joined the king at Rangpur. The Moamarias advanced, laying waste the country and burning the viilages along their line of march and made their headquarters at Bhatiapar. They failed to take Rangpur. Gaurinath made frantic appeals for help from the Manipuri, Kachari and Jaintia Rajas and the Bar Phukan at Gauhati. The Moamarias by bearing down all resistance: appeared before the gates of Ranpur.The king, panic-striken, fled to Gauhati, accompanied by most of his officers?. The Burha Gohain with the Bar Barua and a few others courageously stayed back to stem the tide of rebellion. The king despatched from Gauhati under the Pani Phukan thirteen thousand men to reinforce the Burha Gohain. Meantime the Moamarias beat the royalists and took possession of Garhgaon, burnt down the palace and destroyed many neighbouring villages, the unprotected common people began to throw in their lot with the rebels. War with the Moamariyas The Pani Phukan with reinforcements met the Burha Gohain who had retreated as far as the Kaziranga river. The Burha Gohain now assumed the offensive. But a force under the Pani Phukan was cut up in a night attack and a force under the Dhekial Phukan dispersed in confusion mistaking fugitives for Meamarias. The Burha Gohain wanted now to prevent a further advance by the rebels and built a line of forts, along the Namdang river and held them till March, 1788 when a son of Raja Rajeswar Singha, the Pat Konwar with a force joined him. The Moamarias suffering from shortage of supplies having relaxed, the Pat konwar occupied Sibsagar but was soon taken prisoner and put to death by the Moamarias. In February 1789 the Burha Gohain advanced with success,