Habung

According to John Peter Wade: "Contiguous to Gazlung, still in an easterly direction , lays Haboongh, which is thirty six miles in length and fifteen in breadth.

The earliest reference to Habung comes in the 10th century copper plate grant of Ratnapala of the Pala dynasty, when it was a province (visaya) of the Kamarupa Kingdom with Brahmin settlements.

[3][4] It is known that Chaolung Sukaphaa, founder of Ahom kingdom arrived in this location in 1240 C. E. and spent three years in Habung, before finally settling down at Charaideo in 1253.

The plate records land grants of 400 puti given to a Brahmin named Purandar Vipra, indicating that Habung was a principality of the Chutia kingdom.

[8] Suhungmung, the Ahom king, following an expansionist policy and annexed Panbari of Habung in 1512 AD, which was a part of the Chutia kingdom.

The entrance of the temple built in memory of Sukapha who visited Habung in search of agricultural land in the 13th century.