The Shakta shrine of the goddess Kamakhya on Nilachal hill above Guwahati, in the Kalika Purana (tenth century, per English Wikipedia's Khasi page) already located in Kamarupa.
The standing temple is a rebuilding of 1565 (board); in 1200 a shrine of earlier form stands. The Khasi worship of the goddess is a modern suggestion. Pilgrims and Tantric practitioners come from all India.
Who holds it
- Name
- not named
- Title
- Priests of Kamakhya
- Since
- not known
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
What it holds
- The shrine and its hill
How things stand that morning
A working pilgrimage under the Kamarupa kingship, whoever its king is.
Places of note
- Kamakhya: The shrine.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: The campaign board and one passing mention.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: A small disc for the house and its home villages; the granted villages lay scattered.
Primary sources for Kamarupa
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- Inscriptions of Bengal, vol. 3, Various (the Sena kings' chanceries), edited by N. G. Majumdar (copper plates of the 10th to early 13th centuries; edited 1929). The one-volume edition of the Sena copper plates, the main documentary evidence for Bengal around 1200. Read online
- Epigraphia Indica: inscriptions of the Chandelas, Paramaras, Gahadavalas, Chaulukyas, Senas and Eastern Gangas, Various (edited for the Archaeological Survey of India by J. Burgess, E. Hultzsch, F. Kielhorn, Sten Konow, F. W. Thomas and successors) (inscriptions of the 1180s to 1210s; the series ran from 1892). The main record series for the Hindu kingdoms of northern India around 1200. Read online
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.