| Temples & Legends of Assam |
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| In addition to Siva
Lingas, the Sri Surya Pahar remains include many rock-cut figures of artistic merit. Of
the many images mention may be made of Durga, Siva and Manasa. The image of Manasa
goddess, also identified as Durga by some, is a twelve-armed deity cut out of a single
rock. She holds weapons of different kinds in each of her hands. She is standing on a
lotus with seven snakes spreading their hoods like a canopy over her head.’ This is
perhaps ‘the singular instance of a 12-armed goddess hitherto discovered in
Assam.’ On the hill is a modern shrine, the
walls of which are built of the old bricks, plastered with mud and with the roof of
corrugated iron-sheets. The shrine contains a circular stone tablet measuring four and a
half feet in circumference. On this stone tablet are engraved the images of various
planetary gods with the figure of Surya. |
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