Rangpur, Assam

The city had three gates, namely– Borduar (i.e. main entrance), Na-duar and Paniduar besides an underground tunnel connected with the Dikhow river on the north.

The city was bounded by Dikhow on the north, a fort (Garh) near Namdang river on the south, Bangarh on the east and Dikhow-Namdang on the west.

Ananta Acharyya, who received the royal patronage of King Siva Singha and Phuleshwari, gives a beautiful description of Rangpur in his manuscript Ananta Lahari – Rangpur was second Amaravati (first being the Amaravati of Indra) surrounded by the Visistha Jahnavi (i.e. Dikhow) in the north, the river Namdang in the west and the river Dimbawati (i.e. Dimow) in the south.

It was surrounded by four successive mud forts with timber fence on the top and inside of which there were brick and stone ramparts, masonroy buildings, stores of gold, silver, copper, bell-metal, scent, precious ornament, arms and ammunition and tanks full of lotus.

Lakshmi Singha made a flower garden in which he built the temple of Ekaneswar (Shiva) with a tank.