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TEMPLES IN KAMRUP DISTRICT |
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| Yadavaprakasa
(c 1000 A.D.) in his Vaijayanti mentions Pragjyotisa and Kamarupa (Pragjyotisa Kamarupa
pragjatika). Rajasekhara (c 900 A.D.) refers to Pragjyotisa as a country and
Kamarupa as a mountain. The Jain lexico-grapher, Hemachandra (c. 1200 A.D.) says,
"the Pragjyotisas are Kama rupas." Purusottama also states that Pragjyotisas is
Kamarupa. Yasodhara (c. 1300 A.D.), the author of the Jayamangala commen- tary on the
Kamasutra places Kamarupa as a country of the eastern region (gauda Kamarupa- kah
pracyavisesah). The Manjusri-mula-kalpa puts it near
the Himalayas. In some of the later Purana the name appears in a different context.
The Siva Purana states that in Sahyadri there was a country name Kamarupa which was
conquered by a 'Raksasa named Bhima. Both Vayu and Brahmanda Puranas referring to the
mountain Devakuta and their dwellers mention the Kamarupa Raksasas. Yuan
Chwang called it Ka- mo - lu-p'o. Alberuni called the place Kamru. Mahommedan conquerors
referred to it as Kamru or Kamrud. |
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