The Koch king Naranarayan rebuilds the Kamakhya temple at Guwahati on its ancient site, one of the chief seats of the Goddess and of Tantric worship; the temple crowns Nilachal Hill above the Brahmaputra and draws the Ambubachi festival to this day.
The Event
- Date
- 1565 (exact)
- Era
- Medieval; Standard periodization of Hindu history
- Location
- Guwahati; today Assam, India
- Traditions
- Hinduism
- Streams
- Shaktism
- Key figures
- Naranarayan
Primary Sources
- The Kamakhya temple inscription of 1565
Secondary Sources
- Fuller, The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society in India (Princeton, 2004)
- Flood, An Introduction to Hinduism (Cambridge, 1996)
Provenance: HIST-0323; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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