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TEMPLES IN KAMRUP DISTRICT |
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| Vasistha should not
be found fault with. So Naraka should try to propitiate Brahma or Siva." Naraka was
convinced by the arguments of Bana and he chose to worship Siva "because he was lying
concealed in his own kingdom. -- antarguptam sa me pure." But Naraka’s rule became unbearable. At last Visnu in the person of
Krishna came to invade Pragjyotisa. He is said to have halted his army and stabled his
horses on the rock opposite to Gauhati, on the north bank of the Brahmaputra river. He
killed Naraka and installed his son Bhagadatta or Bhagirath of the Muslim writers on the
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