Sri Surya Pahar

Sri Surya Pahar is positioned about 12 km southeast of Goalpara city and Bongaigaon is the closest town from right here. About 132 km northwest of Guwahati, is a great but fantastically unknown archaeological web page in Assam, India. The web site is a hilly terrain where numerous rock cut Shivalingas, votive stupas and the deities of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain pantheon are scattered in a place of about one km. The website is centered at the hills of Sri Surya that's profusely stuffed up with Shiva Lingas.

The famous perception is that 99999 Shiva Lingas were engraved right here by means of Vyasa in order to build up a second Kashi in which there were 1, 00000 Shiva Lingas and as soon as it was one of the holiest pilgrimage sites inside the area. There is no ancient proof precisely what number of Lingams as soon as dotted in those hills, but nonetheless there are masses of them, from tiny to big in length, scattered anywhere at the foot of the hill and masking the good sized vicinity after centuries of forget and pilferage. The precise determine of the Lingas and additionally other deities and relics inside the hill are yet to depend scientifically.