It was in Charaideo that Sukapha established his first small principality, sowing the seeds of further expansion of the Ahom kingdom. Gait wrote that In 1235, Sukapha and his people settled in Charaideo in upper Assam after wandering about for years, defeating those who protested his advance, and temporarily staying at different locations.

He had with him two elephants, and 300 horses. In his authoritative book on Assam history - A History of Assam, Sir Edward Gait wrote that Sukapha is said to have left a place called Maulung in AD 1215 with eight nobles and 9,000 men, women and children - mostly men.