Maharaja Naranarayan was the third and last ruler of the undivided Koch kingdom of Kamata

Kamata

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. He succeeded his father Biswa Singha. Under him the Koch kingdom reached its cultural and political zenith. He introduced a silver coin, called the Narayani, that greatly influenced the numismatics of Assam

Assam

Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...

. His patronage gave Srimanta Sankardeva

Srimanta Sankardeva

Mahapurusha Srimanta Shankardeva , was the greatest Assamese saint-scholar, playwright, social-religious reformer and a colossal figure in the cultural and religious history of Assam, India...

 the first royal patronage to Mahapuruxiya Dharma

Mahapuruxiya dharma

Ekasarana Dharma is a monotheistic religion founded and propagated by Srimanta Sankardeva in the 15th century. Most of the adherents of this religion today live in the Indian state of Assam...

.

In 1581 Raghu Deva, the son of his brother Shukladhvaj

Chilarai

Shukladhwaj , or more popularly Chilarai , was the younger brother of Nara Narayana, the king of the Kamata kingdom in the 16th century. He was Nara Narayana's commander-in-chief, and he got his name Chilarai because his movement as a general was as fast as a chila .Chilarai is known to have...

 became the de-facto ruler of the eastern part of his kingdom Koch Hajo

Koch Hajo

Koch Hajo was the eastern portion of the Kamata kingdom that splintered off under Raghudev Narayan in 1581 from the Kamata kingdom then under Nara Narayana in medieval Assam. The Sankosh river was fixed as the boundary between Koch Hajo and the western portion that came to be called Koch Bihar....

, though under suzerainty of his uncle. After the death of Nara Narayan, he declared his independence.

Nara Narayan's son Lakshmi Narayan succeeded him after his death, but only inherited the western part of his kingdom Koch Bihar

Koch Bihar

Koch Bihar was a small kingdom located south of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, west of the upper Brahmaputra valley Ahom kingdom, and north-east of the Ganges plain and Bengal. It was formed when the Kamata Kingdom under the Koch dynasty split following the death of Nara Narayan in 1586. The...

. On December 23, 1596 Man Singh I

Man Singh I of Amber

Raja Shri Man Singh Ji Saheb was the Kacchwaha King of Amber, a state later known as Jaipur...

married Nara Narayan's daughter Kshamadevi.

Nara Narayan was a noted patron of literature. During his reign, Purushottam Vidyavagish wrote the Prayogaratnamala, a treatise on Sanskrit grammar.