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For the ancient pejorative term for foreign people in India, see Mleccha

The Mlechchha dynasty (c. 650 - 900) ruled Kamarupa from their capital at Harruppesvar in the present-day Tezpur, Assam, after the fall of the Varman dynasty. The rulers were non-Indo-Aryan local chieftains, and like all other claimed lineages, their lineage from Narakasura was constructed to accord legitimacy to their rule. According to historical records, there were twenty one rulers in this dynasty, but the line is obscure and the names of some intervening rulers are not known.

The Mlechchha dynasty in Kamarupa was followed by the Pala kings.

Origins
It is not clear how Salasthambha, the first of this dynasty, came to power. An inscription from the reign of a king from the later Pala dynasty claims Salasthambha was a lord of the mlechchhas, which many scholars have interpreted to mean that Salasthambha was a mlechchha himself. Salasthambha is first mentioned in an inscription 175 years into the rule of the dynasty.

Suniti Kumar Chatterji claims that Salastambha(650-670) was a Bodo-Kachari chief of Mech (Sanskritized as Mleccha).

According to some historians, the remnant of the Mlechchha kingdom formed the later Kachari kingdom.

Rulers
The grants of Ratnapala give the list of 21 kings from Salastambha to his line.


 * Salastamba (650-670)
 * Vijaya alias Vigrahastambha
 * Palaka
 * Kumara
 * Vajradeva
 * Harshadeva alias Harshavarman (725-745)
 * Balavarman II
 * Jivaraja
 * Digleswaravarman
 * Salambha
 * Harjjaravarman (815-832)
 * Vanamalavarmadeva (832-855)
 * Jayamala alias Virabahu (855-860)
 * Balavarman III (860-880)
 * Tyagasimha (890-900)