Description:- Kamakhya Temple , State :- Assam
Post Office :- Guwahati ,Philatelic Bureau, Pin Code :- 781001
The Kamakhya Temple is a Hindu temple at Nilachal hills in Guwahati, Assam. Dedicated to the mother goddess Kamakhya, it is one of the oldest and most revered
centres of Tantric practices. The temple is the center of the Kulachara
Tantra Marga and the site of the Ambubachi Mela, an annual festival that celebrates the menstruation of the goddess. Structurally, the temple is
dated to the 8th-9th century with many subsequent rebuildings—and the
final hybrid architecture defines a local style called Nilachal.It is also one of the oldest of the 51 pithas in the Shakta tradition. An obscure place of worship for
much of history it became an important pilgrimage destination, especially for
those from Bengal, in the 19th century during colonial
rule Historians have suggested that the Kamakhya temple is an
ancient sacrificial site for an Austroasiatic tribal goddess, Kameikha (literally: old-cousin-mother), of the Khasi and Garo peoples; supported by the folk lores of
these very peoples. The traditional accounts from Kalika Purana (10th century) and the Yogini Tantra too record that the goddess Kamakhya is of Kirata origin, and that the worship of Kamakhya
predates the establishment of Kamarupa (4th century CE).
Description:- One-horned Rhino, State :- Assam
Post Office :- Kaziranga National Park S.O, Pin Code :- 785609
Kaziranga
National Park is a national park in the Golaghat, Karbi Anglong and Nagaon districts of the state
of Assam, India. The sanctuary, which hosts two-thirds of the
world's great one-horned rhinoceroses, is a World Heritage Site. According
to the census held in March 2018 which was jointly conducted by the Forest
Department of the Government of Assam and some recognized wildlife NGOs, the
rhino population in Kaziranga National Park is 2,413. It comprises 1,641 adult
rhinos (642 males, 793 females, 206 unsexed); 387 sub-adults (116 males, 149
females, 122 unsexed); and 385 calves. The greater one-horned rhino is the largest of the rhino species. Once
widespread across the entire northern part of the Indian sub-continent, rhino
populations plummeted as they were hunted for sport or killed as agricultural
pests. This pushed the species very close to extinction and by the start of the
20th century, around 200 wild greater one-horned rhinos remained.
Description:- Temple of Vishnu , State :- Assam
Post Office :- Shib Sabar , Pin Code :- 785640
Sivasagar Sivadol is located in the heart of the Sivasagar city,
which was known earlier as Sibsagar in the Sibsagar district of Upper Assam in Northeast India. Sivsagar, present-day Sivasagar, was the capital of Ahom kingdom. The Ahoms had migrated from Yunnan and reached assam in 1228 and established their first
capital at Charaideo 28 kilometres from present day Sivasagar in 1253. Till
14th century they were followers of Ahom religion until they slowly started becoming Hindu and by the
18th century they fully got absorbed into Hinduism. Sivadol is surrounded by two subsidiary temples
Vishnudol (spelt as Bishnudol) and Devidol which are architecturally similar to
the larger Shiva temple. Vishnudol is dedicated to the God Vishnu; Devidol, also known as Joidol, is a
Goddess Durga temple. While the Vishnu temple's tower has a
honeycomb design with an ornamental criss-cross framework, the Durga temple's
tower is designed, in its vertical elevation, with an undulating pattern.
Besides these there is a temple of Ram and Hanuman.
