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TEMPLES IN KAMRUP DISTRICT |
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| The Yogini
Tantra gives an account of the origin of the Visnu image in the Manikuta. King Indradyumna
of Orissa dreamt a dream at night that a big nameless tree would come floating by the sea
shore. He was to take an axe and cut it into seven pieces in the morning- He did so and of
the seven pieces, two were brought over to Kamarupa. With one piece the Hayagriva. Image
was made and the other the Fish-god named Madhava. The
Manikuta is considered holy by the Buddhists of Tibet and even now Buddhists of the
neighbouring Bhutan hills come own in cold season and do worship the god whom they regard
as Mahamuni Buddha. Waddell mentions in his work Lamaism that there is a tradition in
Tibet that Buddha had his parinirvana in Kamarupa. But the Kalika Purana and Yogini Tantra
make several references to Manikuta. |
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