Kamakhya Temple

Guwahati, Kamrup Metropolitan District, Assam Shakta and tantric tradition

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Temple on the hill

The Kamakhya Temple at Guwahati.

16 May 2011 Kunal Dalui, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source and license

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Identified from a secondary account This line records the published identification only. It does not add a construction date or a height. Date not established in this corpus · Documented fact · Medium confidence

Evidence summary

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1 Republishable photographs

0 Interior photographs

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1 Documents

About the temple

Kamakhya Temple stands on the Nilachal hill above Guwahati. Secondary accounts dedicate it to the goddess Kamakhya and describe it as a centre of tantric worship. They date the standing structure to about the eighth or ninth century, with later rebuilding. That range is not checked against an inscription here.

Primary deity: Kamakhya

Secondary accounts give an 8th–9th century structure and later rebuilding. No building phase is dated from a source ingested here.