Rajmala is a chronicle of the Kings of Tripura, written in Bengali verse in the 15th century under Dharma Manikya I.
[1] The Rajmala[2] chronicles the history of the Manikya kings of Tripura.
While it serves as an invaluable source of information for the region, its historical accuracy in some aspects has been doubted.
[3][4] The text is split up into six parts, written over the course of several centuries under the patronage of different Tripura monarchs.
It was initially commissioned by Dharma Manikya I in 1458,[5] who bestowed the task upon the royal priest Durlabhendra and two Brahman pandits, Sukheshwar and Baneshwar.
Their work formed the first part of the text and covered the traditional period of Tripura's history and incorporated various mythological accounts.
The entire revised text was finally compiled by Durgamoni Uzir during the reign of Krishna Kishore Manikya in the mid-19th-century.
[6][7] The Rajmala presents a list of 149 kings of Twipra as of 1431.
The first king of the chronicle is Chandra, the Moon himself; the seventh is Druhyu, one of the sons of Yayati, a Lunar dynasty in mythology.
The 46th king is called Tripur (Tripura) as a kind of mythological eponymous ancestor of the Sanskritic name of the kingdom.