originally inset by bright brass coating and could be seen dazzling from the great distance. Inside the fortified city, there were seventeen artistic stone pillars. These stone monuments were decorated with carvings of foliage, flowers, familiar animals and birds but nowhere any human images of gods and goddesses were seen. These implied that the kacharis were free of hindu influence at that time. These monoliths are believed to be lineal monuments of the ruling kings of dimapur. The biggest of them was seventeen feet high and twenty four feet in circumference and was said to be memorial of the greatest dimapur ruler makardhwaj (probably khungkradoa raja who was given sanskritized name by brahmins later) in whose time the traditional glory of the kachari kingdom rose to its climax and during whose time the conquests were made of manipur and burma by seng yah (veer) dehmalu kemprai, the greatest warlord of the kacharis. Also during this period, heroes like rangadao ( who was given the southern part of dimapur, ranga pathar after his name), degadao and mystic heroines like wairingma, waibangma flourished in war affairs and mysticism. Other v-shape stone monuments seventeen in numbers indicated seventeen royal clans of the ‘kachari aristocracy’ a term used by dr. Francis hamilton, a renowned scholar of the kachari royal clan.
Shri sk. Barpujari in his book ‘ history of the dimasa’ and some writers opined that the kachari kings to commemorated their victory over other tribesman, erected moonlights of different shapes indicating the different traditions of the vanquished tribes. This tradition of carving victory memorial is in vogue hill tribes and it is possible that the kachari kings might have followed the tradition of these tribes hand it is possible that the kachari kings might have followed the tradition of this tribes for administrative interest. Dr h. Bareh in the ‘gazetteer of India’ writes that the oblong v-shaped stone pillars closely
